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The Story of America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction

January 4, 2018

opium-drawingDoctors then, as now, over-prescribed the painkiller to patients in need. And then, as now, government policy had a distinct bias.

Read the story at SmithsonianMag.com.

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