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Initially, Sigmund was eager to employ cocaine as an antidote for his best friend’s morphine addiction. He began studying cocaine’s effects in 1884, and his clinical notebooks amply demonstrate that his favorite experimental subject was himself.

One of cocaine’s leading medical advocates was a struggling Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud. It was widely available in tonics, powders, wines and soft drinks before its mass consumption created a cadre of raging addicts demanding medical attention. In the early 1880s, pharmaceutical houses touted it as a cure for everything from morphine addiction and depression to dyspepsia and fatigue. Whenever Big Pharma unfurls its latest “blockbuster” drug, I am carried back to the era when the biggest wonder drug on the market was cocaine. Sanjay Gupta has the fascinating history and what it means for us today on 'Sanjay Gupta M.D.' at 7:30 a.m.

And its biggest supporter was Sigmund Freud. Editor's note: Nearly 130 years ago, cocaine was the world’s newest wonder drug - touted as a cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis.

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