Dear comrades,

I remember reading that after the Liberation of China by the communist party, the main cities had a problem with dead bodies in the streets due to opium overdoses. That every morning they had to clean an enormous amount of dead bodies.

However I can't find anything on it anymore. Can someone help a comrade out?

  • vehicom@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/#:~:text=The%20People's%20Republic%20of%20China%20dealt%20with%20addiction%20as%20a,Large%20opium%20distributors%20were%20imprisoned.

    https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_2001_num_32_1_1607

    https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=hon_thesis

      • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        Something something 20% of Shanghai's population were drug addicts, and every night, people who died from the structural violence of war (war-caused virus, wounds, etc) were swept away in the tons by cleaners...

        Yeah, I remember that!