The 25,000-Year-Old Teeth That Just Rewrote The History Of Human Drug Use
How do we understand the relationship between pain relief and psychoactive use?
The pain-reinforcement cycle documented in CPL-R2a’s teeth is a specific instance of a much broader phenomenon: the use of psychoactive substances to manage pain.
The modern opioid crisis in the United States is, in some respects, a contemporary version of the same dynamic — substances used for pain relief becoming the source of addiction and harm.
The Sulawesi evidence is a reminder that this pattern is not new.
These conversations are bigger than any single study can resolve.
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