Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
In 1869, Dr. Henry Gibbons, a prominent California medical practitioner and editor, praised morphine for its ability to make pains "vanish as if by magic" (p. 172). Like many of his fellow colleagues who prescribed and advised the use of such substances that later became classified as nar...
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| Gaia: | In 1869, Dr. Henry Gibbons, a prominent California medical practitioner and editor, praised morphine for its ability to make pains "vanish as if by magic" (p. 172). Like many of his fellow colleagues who prescribed and advised the use of such substances that later became classified as narcotics, he was responsible for the skyrocketing number of American narcotic addiction that peaked in the mid-1890s, reaching an estimated 313,177 users (p. 171).In Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1... |
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