<human>: Can you provide a brief overview of the text?

I recently read the book Three Day Road for my english class and am required to do a presentation on a topic displayed in this book. I have decided to do the present state of morphine.

As seen in the book, morphine was proscribed in WW1 to wounded soldiers as a pain killer, but many got addicted and started abusing the system to get as much morphine as they could. It shows morphine as a terrible drug, being as 'strongly addictive' as it is.

The problem I have encountered when looking up morphine though, is that most of the articles I come across are promoting it, saying it isn't proscribed enough. When I searched Reddit for posts about morphine, I got mostly the same thing. Only 1/10 of the posts were saying something bad about it.

So, heres my question. **IF
<bot>: SKIP TO HERE Is it really as bad as WW1 based novels describe it? Is its addictive qualities not that strong, and it really should be proscribed more?