/tags/opium-commissioner Opium Commissioner en-US Copyright Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-11-07/americas-first-heroin-epidemic-a-century-ago The year was 1908 and an Ohio doctor, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the nation's first Opium Commissioner, warned that Americans "have… Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-11-07/americas-first-heroin-epidemic-a-century-ago