After the American Civil War, pain was everywhereand so was morphine.
This video explores a rarely discussed chapter of U.S. history: how battlefield medicine led to widespread addiction among returning soldiers, and how early remedies like Pemberton’s French Wine Coca emerged as alternatives in an era with little understanding of dependency.
Through a quiet, intimate moment inside a 19th-century apothecary, we examine the choices soldiers faced, the medical practices of the time, and the unintended consequences that shaped modern pharmacology and American culture itself.
This is not a story about weakness.
It is a story about survival, medicine, and the cost of relief.
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