Tag: opioid addiction

• 5 Facts About Opioid Addiction After the Civil War

  

  How many soldiers come home with secrets? How many with scars? Morphine, opium and laudanum, despite being blamed for much heartache, were in the 19th century seen as miracle drugs. The medical calamity of the Civil War was made more bearable by the massive use of painkillers.

  Adrienne Morris

  June 5, 2018

  books, United States History

  Alfred Jay Bollet, Civil War medicine, Civil War Veterans Opiate Addiction, morphine addict, opiate addiction, opiate epidemic veterans, opioid addiction, The House on Tenafly Road