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TIL cocaine, initially used as an anesthetic, was promoted by Merck as a cure for morphine addiction to Civil War veterans. After Freud promoted the drug as treatment for depression, proposed applications of the drug proliferated, fueling an addiction epidemic ended only by regulation in 1914
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Nowadays, in Argentina, a common colloquial name for cocaine is “Merca”, which comes from the name “Merck”