Drugs and Addiction in the 21st Century

The first opioid crisis in the late 19th century was just simply industrialization Brought a whole range of new products that consumers were unfamiliar with and posed a bunch of new dangers. This occurred primarily in consumers who were buying Through medical markets from physicians and pharmacists And these consumers were called patients It also took place to a smaller extent in popular or informal markets because there weren't a lot of rules about it Among people who did not have a status as a patient.