Heroin smoking by 'chasing the dragon': origins and history. by. Strang J, Griffiths P, Gossop M. National Addiction Centre. (The Maudsley/Institute of Psychiatry), London, UK. Addiction 1997 Jun; 92(6):673-83; discussion 685-95. ABSTRACT. The history of heroin smoking and the subsequent development and spread of 'chasing the dragon' are examined. The first heroin smoking originated in Shanghai in the 1920s and involved use of porcelain bowls and bamboo tubes, thereafter spreading across much of Eastern Asia and to the United States over the next decade.
Lee Dark Knight Hartney. The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock band which began as a hip hop group but branched out into other genres, including punk rock, alternative hip hop, rapcore, funk metal and electronic rock, as their career progressed.
1 This is also the case in another Sherlock Holmes short story that was first published in 1892, Silver Blaze. â 2  The highly poisonous Indian swamp adder is a completely fictitious animal. â  The 1910 play The Speckled Band is predated by the 1899 play Sherlock Holmes.