Challenge: How to break our centuries-old love affair with opium and other narcotics

No End in Sight: The Abuse of Pre­scrip­tion Nar­cotics (Cere­brum): “For cen­turies upon cen­turies, peo­ple have used opi­um or its components—morphine and oth­er sim­i­lar narcotics—to get “high” or feel mel­low. Opi­um is tied to ancient civ­i­liza­tions in Egypt, Per­sia, and Chi­na and such fig­ures as Alexan­der the Great, Hip­pocrates, John Keats, and John Jacob Astor.…

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