America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction The actual Social Media Problematic and Sigismund Schlomo Freud

During Americas Civil War, the use of Opium in pills or in powder was massive to help pain and to give a kind of an unconscious power to the soldiers. When the war finished, after 620k soldiers where killed, the return to normality was assisted by Opium and Morphine (Thanks to the invention of the the hypodermic syringe). But not just men suffered of this new addiction; For the beginning of the XX Century, 60% of American women used normal doses of morphine to assist the uncomfortable consequences of regular women cycles . The United States president Theodore Roosevelt declared a sanitary crisis and created a commission to confront and solve the epidemic catastrophe of Opium and Morphine abuse.

They created medical rehab centers to assist those USA citizens, especially the rich ones in complete loss of their human cognitive status.

But what truly change and turned the direction of this tragedy was the conviction of the doctors that to suffer pain in most cases is a human condition and to try to avoid it is contradictory of natural fact.

In our times, the opinions, thoughts, styles and aspirations are ruled by the Social Media and the Influencers, people who make a living from the loose of authentic courage and living of their followers. This is a crisis as well. And I think that Social Media uses technology as Nuclear Energy can be used for a massive destruction. As a fact, not everything is negative news since Schlomo Freud used the sleeping time and the dreams as proof of virtue. Social Media is not used in this relaxation and neuralgic moment of our daily life. So to create a good, respectable environment for our mind at this time of the day will be a good cure for this problematic.