Kittycat5
Bluelighter
Just to brush up your history, morphine was first isolated in 1802 or 1803 by some French pharmacists and was available shortly after. Its true its popularity peaked with the invention of the hypodermic syringe in the 1850s, but it was used for 30 to 40 years before that. And laudanum goes back to medevial times. So opiates were in the west, just not used very socially till maybe around the American Civil War.