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Both the painkilling and pleasurable effects of opium have been known in ancient cultures around the world for millennia. The narcotic arrived in the U.S. with the first Chinese immigrants, but it wasn't until the invention of the hypodermic syrin...
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Contents
Opium - A Blessing & a Curse (1:32) -- Help for Those in Pain (1:21) -- Opium - Cure-All for the Ages (1:28) -- Opium Dens (1:03) -- Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium Eater (2:30) -- Opiates and the Invention of the Syringe (1:12)...
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