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September 02, 2004

Many of the professional and lay articles describing the recent epidemic abuse of cocaine give casual reference to the first popular figure to abuse the drug, London’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. This depiction is rarely understood for its full value as a commentary on addictions from both a medical and historical vantage. As recently noted until the early 1980’s cocaine was generally considered to be a relatively safe, non-addicting agent, with any historical reference to this substance being dismissed as moralistic exaggeration. # posted by masquerader @ 17:40 ::

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