Opium: Reality's Dark Dream
- ISBN-10
- 0300175329
- ISBN-13
- 9780300175325
- Series
- Opium
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-15
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Thomas Dormandy
Description
Discusses the history of the drug, from stone-age time to present day, including its mainstream use as a painkiller and its current status as an illicit narcotic.
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