US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history. US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history.
US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history.
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Book review: Shooting Up lets loose on the drugs of war

Accounts of warfare from the earliest days reveal that altered states of consciousness were crucial to the enterprise

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Updated: 2:54pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history. US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history.
US soldiers patrolling a poppy field in Afghanistan. Intoxication and war have been intimately linked since the dawn of history.
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