Word: opium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photograph with the caption ". . . stunned worshipers listen to priest's words of comfort" is a graphic interpretation of Marx's thought that "religion is the opium of the people." Roy D. Baker Truckee, Calif...
...State Department, meanwhile, would become more involved in trying to cut off drugs at their source: the opium, coca and marijuana fields around the world. In 1972 Turkey was persuaded to control its opium exports, and is no longer a prime provider of heroin. The U.S. has virtually no diplomatic leverage in Iran and Iraq, which have picked up where Turkey left off. But Peru, a major supplier of the coca used in cocaine, would be open to U.S. suasion. So would Colombia and other Latin American countries that became major marijuana producers after the U.S. subsidized Mexico to destroy...
...keeping with the kind of raves that cocaine has enjoyed in the past. In 1885, Parke-Davis, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, promoted it as a wonder drug that would "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and free the victims of alcohol and opium habit from their bondage." Sherlock Holmes, of course, injected a 7% solution to while away the days between cases. In his classic Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin snorted a white powder before taking on all challengers. Freud, who prescribed the drug for treatment of morphine addiction, stomach disorders and melancholia, wrote...
Drug laws, in the U.S. classify cocaine as a narcotic, along with opium, heroin and morphine. Yet the last three are "downers," which quiet the body and dull the senses, while coke is a stimulant, or "upper," similar to amphetamines. It increases the heartbeat, raises blood pressure and body temperature, and curbs appetite. Like a shot of adrenalin, coke puts the body into an emergency state...
Cervical caps have a long and colorful history. Women in the ancient Far East covered the cervix with cups molded of opium or oiled silky paper. In the 18th century, Casanova advised women to use halves of squeezed lemons. The modern version was developed in 1838 by F.A. Wilde, a German gynecologist. It gained widespread acceptance in Europe but never caught on in the U.S., although it was thought to be as reliable as the diaphragm. A major reason: Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger championed the diaphragm...