Maladies & Medicines: Opioids in the Queen City
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The current opioid epidemic has many connections to the past. Champlain College's eighth annual Local History Event features two historians' research on opium, morphine, and opioid addiction in nineteenth-century Burlington.
Independent scholar Gary G. Shattuck presents the history and context of opioids in the Queen City and the State of Vermont in his talk titled "Behind the Curtain: Examining the Causes of Addiction in Nineteenth-Century Vermont."
Champlain College Special Collections Director Erica Donnis presents "The Vibrant Life and Tragic Death of Lucy Benedict Henderson." A resident of Adams and South Union Streets, Mrs. Henderson (1861-1896) was in many ways an ordinary middle class wife and mother, but she suffered from chronic illness, and eventually, morphine addiction.
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