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Loc: Experiencing War: Military Medicine

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Stories focus on military medicine and highlight personal accounts from doctors, nurses, and individuals providing medical support.
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A&E Television

History.com: How Civil War Medicine Led to America's First Opioid Crisis

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During the Civil War, military hospitals considered opioids to be essential medicine. Doctors and nurses used opium and morphine to treat soldiers' pain, stop internal bleeding and mitigate vomiting and diarrhea caused by infectious...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Hospitals Rethink Mom's Role

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Article reports on how doctors and nurses in some hospitals are responding differently to women who deliver opiate addicted babies.

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