Freud's Study of Cocaine

Freud began to research what he believed was a valuable and active medical treatment. And it was cocaine, which, i should add, was not illegal at the time. Throughout the early 18 eighties, freud studied how cocane could be used as a local anaesthetic and a treatment for depression. He would soon come to regret these somewhat hasty judgments when the negative and addictive effects of the drug became more widely known. Even his own friend ernest von fleischel marshov, whom freiud had introduced to cocaine to combat his own morphine ediction, would go on to die of an overdose in 18 91.

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