And some more history...

• Arabs trading with Vienna brought opium back to Europe

• Paracelsus and Sydenham

• British control of opium production in India

• Usage in Britain climbed during the 1800s

  • Peaked at ᡂ pounds per 1000 people, 1870
  • Laudanum

• The Opium Wars (1841, 1856-58, 1860)

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