Louis Foxcroft in his work, The Making of Addiction, rejects the idea to see ‘drug problem’ as the result of class bias in Victorian society as it ‘suggests a form of social plan or conspiracy perpetrated by certain interested parties in order to achieve a self-serving end’(Foxcroft, 2016:5). The medical use and prescription of opiates is then, accordingly, less a part of conspiracy but rather the part and parcel of the ‘unpredictable development of a scientific fact - of the uncertainties, controversies and decision making described by Latour, which sprang from the overall ‘rise of science’ from the eighteenth century onwards’(Foxcroft, 2016:6). While the author does not deny that the physicians had a role to play nevertheless, he wants to
