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TEN DRUGS: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW –

March 22, 2019 – as Thomas Hager, a historian of medicine and science, explains in his absorbing new book, “Ten Drugs,” it also describes America’s first, forgotten opioid epidemic a century ago. The culprit back then was morphine, a compound isolated from poppy sap. And as Hager makes clear, we’re just as helpless treating addicts today as we were in the early 1900s.

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