Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
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The Conceptions of Addiction
The hypodermic needle and morphine combined with surgical anesthesia. I think that was really a profound change in the human condition. The biggest constituency of what would become known as addicts were doctors, nurses, doctors wives, dentists. And if you look at the initial descriptions of them, nobody's really conceiving it as a disease. This is just something, you know, this is a byproduct of ... advances in science which means that this is possible.
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