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CLASSIC: Is the Military on Drugs?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Do You Know the History of the Opium Wars?

Opium was used as a pain killer and to stave off diarrhoea. People just probably weren't as aware of the side effects or the highly addictive nature. Hundreds of thousands of people returned from the war with with an addiction onseint it's like we were talking much earlier, where you sort of plunge headlong into these things because they have an immediate effect. And hopefully, yet, hopefully, learn from the past, which prinis to the story of the the bell of the ball when it comes to a military sponsor drug use.

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