🇺🇸 📖 **Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis**

"_Drawing from veterans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records, government and medical reports, newspaper coverage of addiction, and advertisements, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail, illuminating the war’s traumatic legacies._"

🔗 https://uncpress.org/9781469689531/opium-slavery/.

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