[DiogenesLamp]

And yet in post #42 you refer to "the massive increases in addictions". Hilarious how anti-drug mania leads you to make contradictory arguments within a few posts and minutes of each other.

Not contradictory at all. I'm not citing "massive increases in addictions" as a statistically proven fact, the way you were attempting to do with your techno gibberish from 1842. People could look around and see for themselves that a lot of people were dying from drug overdoses. It had become noticeable.

Newspaper accounts of the era were carrying stories about deaths and addictions.

This publication was put out on June 3, 1905.

The prime ingredients in these "Patent Medicines"? Opium and Cocaine.

[NobleFree]

massive increases in addictions [...] It had become noticeable.

So in the Diogonary, "massive" and "noticeable" are synonyms ... fascinating.