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55: Soft Drinks and Hard Drugs: Coca-Cola's Story is Soda-pressing

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The Origins of Coca-Cola

Cocaine was considered a wonder drug. Doctors were using it to numb patients' eyes and sinuses before surgeries. Dentists told people it could help cure toothaches. Cocaine helps with alcoholism. And the details about what's really behind this seemingly squeaky clean all-American brand? Well, spoiler alert, they ain't good.

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