[Happy Rain]

In John Wayne's last movie,”The Shootist” his character guzzled laudanum to offset the pain of his terminal cancer.
It was not a prescription but a recommendation by Doctor Jimmy Stewart.

[danielmryan]

Yeah...times really change.

I think what pushed things over the edge was the introduction of heroin in 1898. It proved to be too strong and too addictive.

Bayer Company sold both. Strangely, there was more hope for heroin as a "wonder drug" than for aspirin. If you love history, you gotta love irony.