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Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia

Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in IndonesiaWorldPing

Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound.This marks the earliest known example of probable substance addiction…

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