Plant City, Florida - February 18, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - A newly released educational resource examines what laudanum ...

In the 1890s, at the height of the patent medicine era, residents of Boulder County and elsewhere imbibed an assortment of addictive drugs. Women took laudanum (a tincture of opium) for “female ...

There were only a couple of problems: the stuff was horribly addictive, and the wrong doses could kill you. With those dangers in mind, you’d think opiates would have been under lock and key, only ...

Question: Is it true that opium is used for diarrhea? -- W.L., Blountsville, Ala. Answer: Opium tincture, as well as its relative, paregoric, used to be used for diarrhea, but because these substances ...