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Soldier's Disease

Morphine Addiction. The invention of morphine conincided with the American Civil War, and many wounded veteran's came home addicted, giving rise to the euphamism "Soldier's Joy" to refer to Morphine. At the time morphine was not known to many outside of the military.

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