Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, By Thomas de Quincey
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De Quincey "launched a fascination with drug use and abuse" that formed an unlikely link between writers disparate as Dickens, Wilde, Aleister Crowley and the Thompsons (Francis and Hunter S.).
He may not be the first to write about opium but few have done it better, especially in his discussion of the high.
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