In article >, "cybercat" >
wrote:

> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote
> > Opium is a blessing and a curse... I've read the history of it and it's
> > sad and fascinating both.
>
> Wasn't it an opium addiction that Freud used Cocaine to cure?
>
> Creating, of course, a Cocaine addiction?
>
> I read that the man who made Freud and his "cure" famous
> died but his death was not much remarked upon.

It's like curing Heroin addiction with Methadone.

Methadone is supposed to be even _more_ addicting from what I've read...

This book is pure history and it was seriously well written and
researched:

http://tinyurl.com/y6noce

It saved a lot of lives as it was a quick treatment for dysentery as
well as being a godsend for painkilling...

but I plan to stick with Ibuprofen. ;-)

This book even relates our own CIA's smuggling of Heroin into New York
for "political reasons". :-(
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