Cocaine Toothache Drops in Hello

I’m reading The Big Book Of Vice.
In this one, each section is broken down into drugs, alcohol, sex, etc…

It goes into the history of how all came about. The one I found most interesting was What’s In All Those Bottles. At least if I remember correctly. It’s the POV of a patron talking to a bartender. The bartender explains the differences in beer, then goes on to how different liquors are made, then wine and brandy. Really neat stuff.

The story about heroin was a trip. You could get heroin, produced by the Bayer company, over the counter. However Bayer’s new product, aspirin, you needed a prescription for. WTF?

The story of Captain William “Bill” McCoy (suck it Elijah McCoy) and how he brought over the good booze on his ship during prohibition as opposed to his competitors lead to the saying, “The Real McCoy.”.

Then there was the part about cocaine. Cocaine toothache drops, oh how I’d love thee now.

It hurts.

2:55 AM
Dentist at 10:30.

Oh ya!
In the book there is a story warning about the dangers of prescription abuse. This book came out in 1999. The Opioid Crisis didn’t exist. No one could’ve imagine how popular heroin would get again. Fentanyl, what’s that?

What also gets me in all these books I’ve read the SAME politicians that were shit then ARE STILL IN THE FUCKING NEWS NOW!!!

Those who don’t learn from history…have nothing to fear. All the information is out there, recorded for posterity, yet we as a society like chaos and turmoil.

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God bless America, y’all.