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Join Ellen Dolgen for Menopause Mondays on ellendolgen.com. This post was originally published there.  One could say that Menopause offers us a whole new reason to want to reach for our cocktail of choice. Forget work, spouses, kids, and money issues. Those may have been your old reasons for cracking open a bottle of Pinot …

Suffering from menopausal hot flashes? No problem! Just take some opium and call me in the morning. Or perhaps you’d prefer a little cannabis? Sounds crazy, huh? But back in the 1800s, that’s what doctors prescribed for their menopausal patients. References to menopause can be traced far beyond the 1800s. In fact, Aristotle supposedly referred …