Cure for Drunks

Give them Bogg's Tawny Port. It tastes like alcohol, but it's really cocaine syrup.

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Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 10, 2015
Category: Addictions | Inebriation and Intoxicants

Comments

From one kind of drug addiction to another...

Posted by Gator Guy on 04/10/15 at 09:28 AM

Sounds like a deal to me! Lay on, McDuff!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/10/15 at 10:32 AM

Notice how this is really aimed towards the acquaintances / family of those addicted to alcohol. Unfortunately, as Gator Guy points out, many patent medicines were rarely effective and in some cases worse than the disease they were meant to cure.

Posted by KDP on 04/10/15 at 10:56 AM

You're missing the point though, KDP, they were MAKING MONEY!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/10/15 at 10:58 AM

I run a crude rail-road and my mind just went off track.
Spell checker is back!
Yeah!
Thanks

Posted by BMN on 04/10/15 at 05:52 PM

Heck, heroin was sold as a cure for morphine addiction. At least this is genuinely substituting one high for another.

Posted by Miles on 04/10/15 at 05:54 PM

Out off the frying pan and into the fire.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/10/15 at 09:33 PM

Born too late again. Dang it.

Posted by Gary Foster on 04/13/15 at 11:24 AM

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