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How opium was used to keep the kids quiet
It seems extraordinary now, but just over a century ago opium was cheap and widely available to the general public in a huge array of preparations. Brian meets author Mike Jay in a secret location to discover just how hooked on opium both low and high 19th century society had become.
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