A history of how sedatives took hold in white South Africa

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From many descriptions, official as well as popular, it is evident that white South Africans readily and legitimately consumed pharmaceuticals (especially in pill form) for a wide variety of ailments.

In part, the popularity of the new drugs may be explained in terms of the quest for a white, ‘modern’ identity. Asputs it, in the prosperous decades of post-war South Africa, and especially in the 1960s, whites

Some of these substances were ineffectual. Others gave profound relief to those who suffered from sleep deprivation, extreme anxiety, and other forms of socially or psychologically induced torment. Some proved dangerous and destructive. Many also possessed damaging powers when taken in combination with other substances or if imbibed, ingested or injected in excess or over extended periods of time.

By the late 1960s, South Africa had been unevenly propelled towards a new phase of ‘pharmaceutical modernity’. This too would be marked by intense local pharmaceutical politics.

 

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Divine intervention. In the The US opioids is doing the lord’s work. They call it “deaths of despair” blacks call it “the wheel turning”

We need them....our country is being destroyed.

Hardly believe this is a SA problem. America sees a lot of people abusing medication.

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