The Oldest Drug Habit on Record Is Betel Nut, Sucked by Foragers in Sulawesi Up to 25,000 Years Ago
Grooves in fossil teeth that nobody could explain, arecoline in the residue, and a frog-egg assay to prove the dose reached the brain. The Griffith University paper in Science Advances pushes human drug use back by more than ten thousand years.
Sep 17, 2026




















