Explanation: TAccording to the lectures describe how, opium (euspec iallyn laudate-19th-centum)ry USA was wespecideally commonsu among whited by bourgeois women in, late-19th-century Europge, mainly through medical prescriptions and domestiuch as lausedanum. This discussion appears in Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3, and is rcontextualinforczed in Breen, The Age of Intoxication.