Bibliography of published scientific literature related to opium policy in India

<p dir="ltr">This dataset contains bibliography of published scientific literature of relevance to study opium-related public policy in India over time. It has a total of 40 journal articles published over 1862-2024 period providing commentary about opium-related policy/issues starting from the mid 17th century.</p><p dir="ltr">This bibliography was produced as part of a scoping review to map opium-related public policies in India since its industrial scale production in India. Documents were sourced through systematic searches using keywords related to opium and policy in the two major social science databases: the EBSCO Host, and JSTOR. This scoping review was part of a broader research initiative titled, DRITHI (Developing Research and Action Capacities to Counter Harm Industries) - a historical comparative public policy study across the four psychoactive substances (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and opium).</p><p dir="ltr">The search for literature was limited to time period of 1600-2024 and to English language. The search for EBSCO Host: [(opium) OR (poppy) OR (papaver somniferum) OR (morphine) OR (codeine) OR (smack) OR (heroin) OR (thebaine) OR (ladanum) OR (fentanyl) OR (oxycodone) OR (hydrocodone) OR (meperidine) OR (afium) OR (afyun) OR (yapien) OR (kani)] AND [policy OR law OR statute* OR legislation OR regulation OR notification OR control OR prohibit* OR excise OR revenue OR tax OR restrict* OR license*] AND [India]. The search in JSTOR: [(opium) OR (poppy) OR (morphine) OR (codeine) OR (heroin) OR (smack) OR (fentanyl) OR (oxycodone) OR (hydrocodone) OR (ladanum)] AND [policy OR law OR regulation OR control OR prohibit OR license OR tax OR revenue] AND [India]. RT and AK independently reviewed titles and abstracts of all sourced documents for their inclusion/exclusion in the review. They developed consensus on inclusion/exclusion decision and the documents, where consensus could not be achieved, were referred to UB for the final decision.</p><p dir="ltr">Our sole intention of publishing this bibliography is that it may be of help to other researchers/actors interested in opium related policy/issues in India.</p>