Addiction "Cures" of the Late 19th Century EP 6

Weekly Infusion by Susan S Pinsky

Apr 3, 201912:58Religion & Spirituality

Drug historian and author of The Age of Addiction, Dr. David Courtwright, joins us to talk about some of the "addiction cures" that became popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Find out which famo...

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