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DESCRIPTION:Imported on Aug 20\, 2026\, 86 days before the event.\nTo veri
 fy info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=
 63499\n\nJoin us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring local 
 authors\, with the third featuring Jonathan S. Jones\, author of Opium Sl
 avery\, Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis. \n\nDuring 
 the Civil War\, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morp
 hine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended\, th
 ousands of ailing soldiers became addicted\, or "enslaved\," as nineteent
 h-century Americans phrased it. Veterans\, their families\, and communiti
 es struggled to cope with addiction's health and social consequences. Med
 ical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imbued
  the epidemic with cultural meaning by branding addiction as a matter of 
 moral weakness\, unmanliness\, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as 
 "opium slavery" limited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to su
 ffer needlessly for decades after the war ended.\n\nDrawing from veterans
 ' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records\, gove
 rnment and medical reports\, newspaper coverage of addiction\, and advert
 isements\, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of op
 iate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail\, illuminating the
  war's traumatic legacies. In doing so\, Jones provides critical historic
 al context for the modern opioid crisis\, which bears tragic resemblance 
 to that of the post-Civil War era.\n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Wash
 ington St.\nFees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and volunteers.
 \nTags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old & Historic Alexan
 dria\, Old Town\n\nWeb resources:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://sho
 p.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans ..."
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 ar/Detail.aspx?si=63499</a><br />\n<br />Join us at Lloyd House for a ser
 ies of lectures featuring local authors\, with the third featuring Jonath
 an S. Jones\, author of Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans and America?s 
 First Opioid Crisis. \n<br />\n<br />During the Civil War\, the utility a
 nd widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential t
 o wartime medicine. After the war ended\, thousands of ailing soldiers be
 came addicted\, or ?enslaved\,? as nineteenth-century Americans phrased i
 t. Veterans\, their families\, and communities struggled to cope with add
 iction?s health and social consequences. Medical and government authoriti
 es compounded veterans&#39\; suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultu
 ral meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness\, unmanli
 ness\, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as ?opium slavery? limited 
 the efficacy of care and left many veterans to suffer needlessly for deca
 des after the war ended.\n<br />\n<br />Drawing from veterans&#39\; first
 hand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records\, government 
 and medical reports\, newspaper coverage of addiction\, and advertisement
 s\, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-ad
 dicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail\, illuminating the war?s 
 traumatic legacies. In doing so\, Jones provides critical historical cont
 ext for the modern opioid crisis\, which bears tragic resemblance to that
  of the post?Civil War era.\n<br />\n<br />Location: Lloyd House\, 220 N.
  Washington St.\n<br />Fees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and 
 volunteers.\n<br />Tags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old 
 &amp\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town<br>\n<a href="https://shop.alexandr
 iava.gov/Events.aspx">Purchase Tickets online</a><br>\n
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