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What is Addiction?
Another Look at the Subject Judith Stamps The conversation below began as part of a research project. I was checking in which war morphine was first used. The American Civil War, it turns out, is the correct answer. It was also widely use in WWI and WWII. But I was struck by an odd fact. […]