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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 4410538, member: 74968&quot;]30 seconds of research:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The history of drug use goes back many centuries. Narcotics were known to ancient people and their civilizations not only for religious reasons but also for medical purposes [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#1" rel="nofollow">1</a>]. Drugs were used at the oracle of the ancient world and also during initiation ceremonies. Many scholars believe the prophetic delusions of the Oracle “Pithia” were the result of drug use [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#2" rel="nofollow">2</a>]. Opium is surely the most famous medicine in the history of our world. The ancient Greeks knew of the drug since the prehistoric and Minoan years [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#3" rel="nofollow">3</a>]. Opium was a basic component of an ancient greek remedy called the “Thiriaki” (Θηριακή) which was considered as an exceptional therapeutic drug for more than 4,000 years [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#4" rel="nofollow">4</a>]. There is considerable evidence that opium-based medicines found use since the pre-historical and Minoan times [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#1" rel="nofollow">1</a>]. The drug became part of the therapeutic tools of doctors all over the world for many centuries including the 20th century pharmaceutical companies. As Marios Marcellos professor of pharmacology at the University of Ioannina notes, many European doctors from the medieval ages through the 17th century were called Doctor Opiatus, due to their frequent prescription of opium [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#5" rel="nofollow">5</a>]. Cannabis is also a well-known drug for its psychotropic qualities since the ancient times [<a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625#6" rel="nofollow">6</a>].&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This paper can be found here.</p><p><a href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625" rel="nofollow">https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/drug-addicts-in-the-hellenic-armed-forces-a-groundbreaking-study-by-professor-demetrios-kouretas-in-1930.php?aid=3625</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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