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The guest noted it as a historic bestseller that details the pleasures and pains of opium use with a florid, poetic style, linking past experiences to today's drug issues.
And the last one, maybe a more eccentric choice, but it's such a good book, is by Thomas De Quincey, and it's called Confessions of an English Opium Eater... he wrote a very scandalous account about h...
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Episode: This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug...
The guest noted it as a historic bestseller that details the pleasures and pains of opium use with a florid, poetic style, linking past experiences to today's drug issues.
And the last one, maybe a more eccentric choice, but it's such a good book, is by Thomas De Quincey, and it's called Confessions of an English Opium Eater... he wrote a very scandalous account about his experience of longtime opium use, the pains of opium and the pleasures of opium and a bit about how it affects social relationships and human psychology.