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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> Opium was once considered to be a member of a set named "dope"?
> Instead of actually being itself "dope"? I have an unfortunately very
> vague memory of having heard the use of the word, "dope," to name a
> substance, otherwise unidentifiable by me, used by "po' folk" in East
> Texas to pacify babies. Wonder whether there is / was a connection
> between the "dope" of which opium is one kind and the kind of "dope"
> once so commonly used to pacify colic-y babies that there was no need
> to be more specific about its name.
>
> -Wilson
>

Perhaps Paragoric?
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