Commerce in opium develops on an organized…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

Commerce in opium develops on an organized basis during the eighteenth century.

Opium comes into wide use in the West in the eighteenth century as a painkiller, and opium, laudanum, and paregoric are active ingredients in many patent medicines.

These drugs are freely available without legal or medical restrictions, but the many cases of addiction they cause arouse little social concern.

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Colonization of Asia, Dutch View → Colonization of Asia, English View → Colonization of Asia, French View → Colonization of Asia, British View →

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