From a Washington Post story about opioid addiction....in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War:
One estimate suggests that by 1890, several hundred thousand Americans, many of them, probably, Civil War veterans, were addicted, according to (Jonathan S.) Jones’s research. “It’s the first example of these kind of recurring opioid crises that we have,” he said.
His book, “Opium Slavery: The Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis,” is due out in 2023, according to the University of North Carolina Press.
Photographs document Civil War veterans' wounds. Clockwise from top left: John Brink of Company K, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry; Sgt. Warden; Allison Shutter, Company C, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves; Samuel H. Decker, Company I, 9th U.S. Artillery. (Library of Congress)
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