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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.