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 y info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/CalendarTest/Detail.aspx?
 si=63499\n\nJoin us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring loc
 al authors\, with the third featuring Jonathan S. Jones\, author of Opium
  Slavery\, Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis. \n\nDuri
 ng the Civil War\, the utility and widespread availability of opium and m
 orphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended\,
  thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted\, or "enslaved\," as ninete
 enth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans\, their families\, and commun
 ities struggled to cope with addiction's health and social consequences. 
 Medical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imb
 ued 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
  suffer needlessly for decades after the war ended.\n\nDrawing from veter
 ans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records\, g
 overnment and medical reports\, newspaper coverage of addiction\, and adv
 ertisements\, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of
  opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail\, illuminating 
 the war's traumatic legacies. In doing so\, Jones provides critical histo
 rical context for the modern opioid crisis\, which bears tragic resemblan
 ce to that of the post-Civil War era.\n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. W
 ashington St.\nFees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and voluntee
 rs.\nTags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old & Historic Ale
 xandria\, Old Town\n\nWeb resources:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://
 shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans ..."
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 endarTest/Detail.aspx?si=63499</a><br />\n<br />Join us at Lloyd House fo
 r a series of lectures featuring local authors\, with the third featuring
  Jonathan S. Jones\, author of Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans and Ame
 rica?s First Opioid Crisis. \n<br />\n<br />During the Civil War\, the ut
 ility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates esse
 ntial to wartime medicine. After the war ended\, thousands of ailing sold
 iers became addicted\, or ?enslaved\,? as nineteenth-century Americans ph
 rased it. Veterans\, their families\, and communities struggled to cope w
 ith addiction?s health and social consequences. Medical and government au
 thorities compounded veterans&#39\; suffering and imbued the epidemic wit
 h cultural meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness\, 
 unmanliness\, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as ?opium slavery? l
 imited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to suffer needlessly f
 or decades after the war ended.\n<br />\n<br />Drawing from veterans&#39\
 ; 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<br />\n<br />Location: Lloyd House\,
  220 N. Washington St.\n<br />Fees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Membe
 rs and volunteers.\n<br />Tags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums
 \, Old &amp\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town<br>\n<a href="https://shop.a
 lexandriava.gov/Events.aspx">Purchase Tickets online</a><br>\n
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