Dear comrades,
I remember reading that after the Liberation of China by the communist party, the main cities had a problem with dead bodies in the streets due to opium overdoses. That every morning they had to clean an enormous amount of dead bodies.
However I can’t find anything on it anymore. Can someone help a comrade out?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/#:~:text=The People’s Republic of China dealt with addiction as a,Large opium distributors were imprisoned.
https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_2001_num_32_1_1607
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=hon_thesis
Grateful comrade!