Annie Crawford's Southern Charm

Annie Crawford wasn't a trained nurse, yet she had access to a lot of medicine. Terrence Fitzmorris says that there were a lot of civil war soldiers who were addicts and unscrupulous doctors who preyed on them. Heroin was one of those cures for morphine, so by 1910, addiction was skyrocketing across America,. It affected families like the Crawfords.

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