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Drug Policy

dixiegrrrrl

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1. Little known tidbit of history is the drugging of children.

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 05:53 PM

Feb 2014

Colicky babes, whiny kids would be given a "sugar tit", a cube of sugar wrapped in (hopefully) a clean handkerchief, then dipped in whiskey. The kid would suck away, and soon drift away.
Other opiates which were legal were also used, including the heroin, and laudanum ( from poppies).
It was fairly common, say the history books I have read.
Laudanum was pretty popular with stressed out mothers, too, some had a "genteel" addiction to it, others wigged out most spectacularly.

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How aspirin turned hero - Heroin, Bayer and Heinrich Dreser [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 OP

Little known tidbit of history is the drugging of children. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2014 #1

Mothers always had a little helper..... Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #2