Fall Asleep as a Laudanum Addict in Victorian England

Podcast: History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian · Drowsy Historian

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Step into Victorian England, where a small bottle of laudanum sits quietly among the ordinary medicines of a respectable household. What begins as relief for pain, sleeplessness, and frayed nerves slowly becomes something more difficult to ignore. Evening doses turn into routine, routine becomes dependence, and before long the hours of the day begin revolving around when the bottle will be needed again. In this immersive second-person journey, experience how laudanum addiction could...