Green Mountain Opium Eaters : A History of Early A Alexandra Benedict unexpected friendship

unexpected friendship

She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown

Margery Williams

Sweeney astutely shares the powerful and moving lessons of how we can exist and be remembered with intention and meaning

Intimate and illuminating

Green Mountain Opium Eaters : A History of Early A Alexandra Benedict unexpected friendshipThe green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3. 3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all