Drug Danger
With opium and other drugs becoming globalcommodities and the pharmaceutical industry making opiates the drugs ofmass abuse in big European and American cities, an estimated 5 out of 6 working class English families used opium on a regular basis in Victorian England. With alcoholism denounced as one of the most notable sins of the lower classes looking for an escape from a dreary existence, opium’s effects were actually preferred because it never produced the aggression or the violence that were usually associated with alcohol.
With opium and other drugs becoming globalcommodities and the pharmaceutical industry making opiates the drugs ofmass abuse in big European and American cities, an estimated 5 out of 6 working class English families used opium on a regular basis in Victorian England. With alcoholism denounced as one of the most notable sins of the lower classes looking for an escape from a dreary existence, opium’s effects were actually preferred because it never produced the aggression or the violence that were usually associated with alcohol.
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