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Opioid-related issues "popping" up again.
For centuries the world has appreciated the potent analgesic qualities and adverse effects/addictive qualities of opioids. Evidence of potential poppy plant use (preserved remains of cultivated poppy seeds and pods) may date back to the fourth millennium BC (2). Opium was proposed as a remedy for multiple ailments in 1552 BC in the Ebers papyrus. Drug use in ancient central Asia is evidenced by...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: March 2008
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj.2008/11/s1