which would seem unhumanitarian. they couldn't treat malaria which was endemic in the south. they couldn't get opium to manufacture laudanum or anything else. they did encourage them to grow poppies and there was some provision of poppy seeds for them to grow poppies and give instructions on how you cut the mrours and get the opium out. it never amounted to much because they couldn't grow enough to really make it worthwhile and matter. [ inaudible ] >> the northern doctors were growing their own poppies and urging other doctors to do it. >> yeah. a lot of hands up. i didn't see where they were. so, yeah, for a lot of reasons doctors prescribed opium or opiate products a lot because there just wasn't really anything else to do for a lot of ailments. given this, how did doctors and the general public regard 19th century opiate the addicts and here we're not talking about those people addicted to smoking op opium but addicted to laudanum, morphine, linda? >> they were viewed as medically diseased. in need of treatment. not censured in criminalization. >> because these were nice,