Oh pshaw, on Sun 29 Oct 2006 02:06:31p, OmManiPadmeOmelet meant to say...

> 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". :-(

Paregoric was always in our medicine cabinet when I was growing up and was
also in mine as an adult. It was never abused, used only very occasionally
for serious upset stomach or toothache. For upset stomach, we took 1
teaspoon stirred into a small glass of tepid water.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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If at first you do succeed -- try to hide your
astonishment.