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Why WW2 Morphine Saved Lives While Your Modern Morphine Kills You

In nineteen forty-four, an American medic crouched in a Normandy foxhole three days after D-Day. Soldier hit by shrapnel. Infected wound. Fever rising. The medic pulled a morphine syrette from his field kit. Small glass tube with attached needle. Pre-measured dose. He injected into the soldier's thigh. Marked M on the soldier's forehead with blood so other medics would know. Logged the dose in his book. Sixteen milligrams. The infection cleared in days. Soldier survived. Morphine saved thousands on battlefields. Used strategically. Severe trauma only. Today? You get wisdom teeth removed. Minor dental surgery. Doctor prescribes morphine pills. Bottle of thirty. For tooth extraction. Pain goes away. But two weeks later, body craves more. Six months later, buying pills illegally. One year later, dead. Overdose. Five hundred thousand Americans killed by opioids since nineteen ninety-nine. Subscribe:    / @warlogic-f7b   #ww2 #coffee #health