A comprehensive overview of opioid use throughout human history, current problems surrounding opioid abuse, and suggested approaches to solving these problems.
• Provides a complete historical overview of opioid use in human societies
• Contextualizes the crisis with a chronology of important events in the history of opioid use
• Offers a strong collection of reference materials for use in further research on the topic
• Discusses the synthetic and neurological chemistry of opioids and how different types have been used throughout history