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Civil War veterans and America's first opioid crisis
The magnum Dei donum of the Materia Medica: the rise of opiates in antebellum American medicine -- So dreadful an evil: the cultural construction of opiate addiction in antebellum America -- The Drs. put me on morphine: Civil War medicine and opiate addiction -- Opium slavery: veterans and the experience of addiction -- Opium mania: addiction as mental illness -- Vicious habits: opiate-addiction and military entitlements -- Buying and selling the cure: veterans and patent medicine remedies for opiate addiction -- The revolt against opium: physicians react to mass addiction -- The Army disease: remembering addicted veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]