[CurlyDave]

...Those poor civil war guys. What agony they must have gone through. Early on in my head injury I used to go to the hospital with very bad headaches for a morphine drip and even they wouldn’t last very long once I left.

There must have been so many addicts.

I have read that if the drug is available for a relatively low price, an opiod addict can live a relatively normal, productive life.

[beef]

They called morphine addiction “Soldiers Disease” after the CW. You could order kits complete with syringes out of the Sears catalog.