Green Mountain Opium Eaters

A History of Early Addiction in Vermont

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, Travel, History, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Addiction, Drug Dependence
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Author: Gary G. Shattuck ISBN: 9781439660973
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Publication: June 5, 2017
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Gary G. Shattuck
ISBN: 9781439660973
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Publication: June 5, 2017
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English

The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all contributed to the problem. Those conflicts were compounded by a hands-off legislature focused on prohibiting the consumption of alcohol. Historian Gary G. Shattuck traces this unusual aspect of Vermont's past.

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The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all contributed to the problem. Those conflicts were compounded by a hands-off legislature focused on prohibiting the consumption of alcohol. Historian Gary G. Shattuck traces this unusual aspect of Vermont's past.

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