Name: The Accidental Addict
Creator: Howard Markel
Keywords: Male, Morphine, History, 19th Century, 06 humanities and the arts, History, 20th Century, Opioid-Related Disorders, United States, Hospitals, University, Cocaine-Related Disorders, 03 medical and health sciences

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 10 Mar 2005 English Publisher:Massachusetts Medical SocietyJournal:New England Journal of Medicine, volume 352, pages 966-968 (issn: 0028-4793, eissn: 1533-4406,

Authors: Howard Markel;

doi: 10.1056/nejmp048240

pmid: 15758006

The Accidental Addict

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Abstract

One of the most remarkable tales of a concealed drug addiction began more than a century ago and involves a brilliant young doctor. Dr. Howard Markel writes about William Stewart Halsted, who by the age of 33 faced both professional and literal extinction because of a relentless addiction to cocaine.

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Male, Morphine, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Opioid-Related Disorders, United States, Hospitals, University, Cocaine-Related Disorders, Cocaine, General Surgery, Baltimore, Humans, Anesthetics, Local

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