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-<p>
-<strong>
-Narcotics [related: Narcissus, Nepenthe, Narc][disambiguation:
-<em>
-My Nepenthe
-</em>
-]
-</strong>
-<br/>
-A specific set of psychoactive compounds known to induce forgetfulness and mild euphoria
-<sup>
-</sup>
-, though the term
-was also later applied to nepenthe, a substance of unknown origin described at length in the writings of ancient
-Greece. Although the ubiquity of narcotics in the Western World declined after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the
-'s saw an explosion of
-[[error]]
--based narcotic use in the United States. Television
-producer
-[[steven-bochco]]
-, an amateur scholar of antiquities, noticed parallels
-between the ancient and modern worlds, giving rise to the television series
-[[my-nepenthe]]
-. The term "narcotic" was originally taken from narcissus
-<sup>
-</sup>
-, a plant known to induce
-trance-like states and hallucinations, leading to the etymology of the term "narcissism
-<sup>
-</sup>
-" after the myth of
-an intoxicated youth that drowned after falling in love with his own reflection in a shallow pool of fetid water.
-Throughout history, narcotics and other psychotropic drugs have played a central role in mythologically-based mystical
-practices including astral projection and levitation. Although they have been categorized by the United States
-government as extremely harmful and problematically addictive, various medical scholars, most notably
-[[imago]]
-, have enthusiastically prescribed and ingested narcotics in various forms.
-</p>
-<div class="footnote">
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-Debate continues to surround the "source" of narcotic-induced
-euphoria, with some experts attributing the occasional appearance of
-euphoria in narcotic users to temporary freedom from the
-[[error]]
-via loss of discrete "self" (as
-opposed to acute chemo-neurological processes in the brain).
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-A genus of carnivorous plant found throughout the Old World tropics, was later named after the mythical
-drug, in part based on its technique of intoxicating small lizards and other reptiles into submission and then
-drowning them in dew-filled monkey cups.
-</p>
-<p>
-<sup>
-</sup>
-It should be noted that severe (often impermanent) narcissism
-often accompanies the onset of
-[[schizophrenia]]
-and/or non-specific
-psychotic episodes, a commonality that, according to
-[[dharma]]
-doctrine, can
-be attributed to the ailing mind being entirely pervaded by an errant sense
-of discrete, inherently existing "
-[[the-self]]
-".
-</p>
-</div>
-]]>

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