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To: NobleFree
China should be mentioned - as should the contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s.

What contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s? Most of the US experience with drugs occurred after the civil war left so many former soldiers addicted to opiate pain killers, and awareness of drug addiction did not start in the US until the 1880s or so.

12 posted on 11/02/2017 11:54:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
What contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s?

As I've pointed out to you: "the rate of opiate addiction in America increased throughout the nineteenth century, from not more than 0.72 addicts per thousand persons before 1842 to a maximum of 4.59 per thousand in the 1890s; thereafter the rate began a sustained decline."

22 posted on 11/02/2017 1:02:48 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Dr. Bartalo in “Barber of Seville” (1818) hated Figaro because Figaro doped up the member’s of Dr. Bartalo’s household.


35 posted on 11/02/2017 1:37:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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