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- 01Freud's 1884 paper 'Über Coca' celebrated cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction; he prescribed it directly to patients.
- 02His colleague Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, given cocaine by Freud to treat morphine dependence, died in 1891 of cocaine toxicity.
- 03Freud's biographer Ernest Jones downplayed the cocaine episode for decades; the full record was not examined until the 1970s.