Publisher's Synopsis
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Opium is processed to produce heroin, but in its simpler form, opium was used by medical practitioners as a pain-reliever prior to the knowledge and sensitivity to the addictions of psychoactive drugs.
This book focuses on the specifics of opium use by famous writers, some using opium initially for medical needs and falling into a physical addiction which then led to self-medication and the awareness of heightened mental capacity while writing.
Included in this book are the most well known of the "poppy writers" including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others.
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