An intelligent and authoritative history of opium--a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the Milk of Paradise for millennia.
The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive.
A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand.
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