The opium-eaterThomas De Quincey
The opium-eater
and essays
by Thomas De Quincey · first published 1898
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This seems like it was influenced by 1821’s Confessions of an Opium Eater, which is a very interesting read, far more than you’d probably assume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opiu...
on “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)” ↗To anyone interested in this genre, I would recommend Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater.[1] I found it far more readable, interesting, and entertaining than De Quincey's Opium Eater, by which it was inspired. [1] - https://archive.org/details/66640730R.nlm.nih.gov
on “The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir (2016)” ↗…abortion, euthansia and physical sex changing. Seems really inconsistent. During the heyday of open access to opioids in 19th century overdose was rare. Thomas de Quincy, who wrote "Confessions of an Opium Eater" functioned for I think about 20 years on the drug. Then he quit voluntarily. It is prohibition and restriction of access that is the problem. That said some habitual opioid users may be lazy and self…
on “You’ve Never Seen the Opioid Crisis Like This Before: A Review of Empire of Pain” ↗