Drug Addiction in 19th Century America
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 12 December 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:58.6 | Tauson University history of professor Elizabeth Gray talks about the use and public |
| 1:02.6 | opinions on opium and laudanum in the 19th century. |
| 1:06.9 | Professor Gray describes how most laudanum addicts at the time were upper-class women, |
| 1:10.5 | who originally had been prescribed the drug by their doctors. |
| 1:13.6 | She argues that since men at the time were less likely to seek medical attention, |
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| 1:20.6 | this created a gender divide between alcoholics and opium addicts. |
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