>>7289463Stop acting so juvenile. Anyway, he still used it as medicine: “During the day he took nothing but Theriac, not because he was afraid of poison, but to ease his stomach and chest”. [Dio Cassius]. He did not take it primarily for pleasure, but he did get a dependence (as you can with many medicines)
“When he found himself getting drowsy at his duties, he had the poppy juice removed, but then he was unable to sleep at night, so he was obliged again to have recourse to the compound which contained poppy-juice, since this was now habitual for him.” [Galen XIV 4].
