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   From: usenet@miniac.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:54:54 GMT, AlanG  wrote:   
      
      
   >>   
   >ISTR there were less than a hundred heroin addicts in the whole   
   >country pre 1971   
      
   Sherlock Holmes being a one in 500,000 statistic? Don't believe it.   
      
   I think there must have been many more. Heroin/opium/morphine was the   
   main active ingredient in over the counter medicines such as   
   "Chloridyne" (that my father was curiously fond of) and "Laudanum".   
      
   http://www.nycgoth.com/more/laudanum/   
      
   Many of the partakers must have been hooked on it. I don't know when   
   it got banned.   
      
   DG   
      
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