At that time, opium addiction constituted a significant problem in the civilian population of the Philippines.

There is disagreement over Cocteau's reaction to Radiguet's sudden death in 1923, with some claiming that it left him stunned, despondent and prey to opium addiction.

In Opium: Journal of drug rehabilitation ( Opium: Journal d ' une désintoxication ), he recounts the experience of his recovery from opium addiction in 1929.

He set the precedent for sons rebelling against their emperor fathers and was much criticised for his addiction to alcohol, opium, and women.

Coleridge stayed in London to work on the poem and also to try and break his opium addiction ..

In 1712, Engelbert Kaempfer described addiction to madak: " No commodity throughout the Indies is retailed with greater profit by the Batavians than opium, which users cannot do without, nor can they come by it except it be brought by the ships of the Batavians from Bengal and Coromandel.

Likewise, American law sought to contain addiction to immigrants by prohibiting Chinese from smoking opium in the presence of a white man.

Illicit drugs: minor producer of opium poppy with 21 km < sup > 2 </ sup > cultivated in 1999, capable of producing 11 metric tons of opium ; probably minor transit point for Southeast Asian heroin destined for the US and Europe ; growing opium / heroin addiction ; possible small-scale heroin production

For a time ( starting in 1810 ), Wordsworth and Coleridge were estranged over the latter's opium addiction.

Although the useful information was more likely to concern unexploded land mines and opium addiction than the latest modern farming techniques, the inspiration and model of Naway Kor, Naway Jwand was The Archers, and the initial workshopping with Afghan writers included an Archers scriptwriter.

* Our right to drugs: Drug addiction is not a " disease " to be cured through legal drugs ( Methadone instead of heroin ; which forgets that heroin was created in the first place to be a substitute to morphine, which in turn was created as a substitute to opium ), but a social habit.

The Boxers consisted of local farmers / peasants and other workers who were made desperate by disastrous floods and widespread opium addiction and laid the blame on Christian missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Europeans colonizing their country.

They had forced China to import opium, thus leading to widespread addiction, defeated China in several wars, asserted a right to promote Christianity and imposed unequal treaties under which foreigners and foreign companies in China were accorded special privileges, extraterritorial rights and immunities from Chinese law, causing resentment and xenophobic reactions among the Chinese.

In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabilitate from his desperate opium addiction.

In Haworth there are tea rooms, souvenir and antiquarian bookshops, restaurants, pubs and hotels including the Black Bull, where Branwell Brontë's decline into alcoholism and opium addiction allegedly began.

Those few who returned were demoralized and often exposed to opium addiction.

" Şantier was also noted for its portrayal of drug addiction and intoxication with opium, both of which could have referred to Eliade's actual travel experience.

Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, William Henry Donald, who had previously been Zhang ’ s adviser ( and had helped him overcome opium addiction ), to Xi ' an for negotiation.

One of his former students, Duncan Leung, claimed that Yip used tuition money to support his opium addiction.

A lifetime of extreme poverty, ill-health, and an addiction to opium took a heavy toll on Thompson, even though he found success in his last years.

De Quincey was oppressed by debt for most of his adult life ; along with his opium addiction, debt was one of the primary constraints of his existence.

As with many addicts, De Quincey's opium addiction may have had a " self-medication " aspect for real physical illnesses, as well as a psychological aspect.

The rice wasn't dosed with opium, indeed it had no taste at all, not a grain of salt.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

In 1996, legal exports ( excluding opium ) were estimated at $ 80 million and imports estimated at $ 150 million per year.

The opium addicts were mostly women who were prescribed and dispensed legal opiates by physicians and pharmacist for ” female problems ,” probably mostly pain at menstruation, or white men and Chinese at the Opium dens.

Morphine was the first active principle purified from a plant source and is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different types present in opium, poppy straw concentrate, and other poppy derivatives.

Morphine is generally 8 to 14 percent of the dry weight of opium, although specially bred cultivars reach 26 percent or produce little morphine at all, under 1 percent, perhaps down to 0. 04 percent.

Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst ( it is synthesised from 1, 1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane ) who were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.

Cultivation of opium poppies for food, anaesthesia, and ritual purposes dates back to at least the Neolithic Age ( new stone age ).

Widespread medical use of unprocessed opium continued through the American Civil War before giving way to morphine and its successors, which could be injected at a precisely controlled dosage.

" Tablets found at Nippur, a Sumerian spiritual center south of Baghdad, described the collection of poppy juice in the morning and its use in production of opium.

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

Fueled in part by the 1729 ban on madak, which at first effectively exempted pure opium as a potentially medicinal product, the smoking of pure opium became more popular in the eighteenth century.

This elaborate procedure, requiring the maintenance of pots of opium at just the right temperature for a globule to be scooped up with a needle-like skewer for smoking, formed the basis of a craft of " paste-scooping " by which servant girls could become prostitutes as the opportunity arose.

Despite opium tincture being an " unapproved drug " as discussed above, a search of FDA's website does not reveal any efforts at this time to ban opium tincture or restrict its use ; in fact, the FDA has a web page devoted to patient and practitioner education about opium tincture.

" This warning may indicate a shift in FDA policy toward banning opium tincture or at least requiring the product to be brought within the FDA's regulatory framework.

The opium tincture is gradually tapered over a 3 – 5 week period, at which point the newborn should be completely free of withdrawal symptoms.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices recommends that opium tincture not be stocked at all in a pharmacy's inventory, and that " It may be time to relegate opium tincture and paregoric to the museum of outmoded opioid therapy.

Large Chinese communities at both Limehouse and Shadwell developed, established by the crews of merchantmen in the opium and tea trades, particularly Han Chinese.

During this time of popularity, users called opium " God's Own Medicine.

" Tobacco in that time was frequently mixed with other herbs ( this continues with clove cigarettes to the modern day ), and opium was one component in the mixture.

During this time, he became addicted to opium, which he first had taken as medicine for ill health.

" During this time he began to take opium.

Episodes were aimed at adults and featured some of the most explicit content of their time, including violent crimes, scalpings, massacres, and opium addicts.

The villain in The Blue Lotus is Mitsuhirato, a Japanese man who owns a fashion shop and an opium den ( in a time and place where such dens were legal and considered legitimate ), which cover his activities as a drug smuggler and secret agent of Japan, who organizes the sabotage of a Chinese railway ( based on the real-life Mukden Incident ).

Conditions at the time are reported in Dutch sources as miserable ; Suharto himself is reported as assisting smuggling syndicates in the transport of opium through the territory he controlled, to make income.

The phrase " This opium you feed your people " appeared in 1797 in Marquis de Sade's text L ' Histoire de Juliette and Novalis's " eligion acts merely as an opiate " around the same time.

At the time when Marx wrote this text, opium was legally available in some parts of the world, although there were attempts to regulate, legislate and prohibit its use, sale and production, due to the negative effects the substance had on individuals and society in general.

Though he openly used opium, the only treatment of that time for the extreme pain caused by his lifelong battle with tuberculosis, his belligerent and bellicose personality can be traced to his early boyhood and before the onset of any disease.

* German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner isolates morphine from opium for the first time.

Tatum O ' Neal has alleged in her 2004 autobiography that around that time, she ( then 12 ) and Griffith ( then 18 ) had a sexual encounter in a Paris hotel room while high on opium and hashish.

For a long time he was held in vague esteem for the success of his cooling ( or rather expectant ) treatment of small-pox, for his laudanum ( the first form of a tincture of opium ), and for his advocacy of the use of " Peruvian bark " in quartan agues, in modern terms, the use of quinine-containing cinchona bark for treatment of malaria caused by Plasmodium malariae.

Jasper visits the London opium den again for the first time since Edwin's disappearance.

In 1839, the confiscation by the Chinese authorities at Canton of 20, 000 chests of opium led Britain to attack China in the First Opium War, and the seizure by Britain of the island of Hong Kong, at that time a minor settlement.

At the time, the government was levying taxes from users and shops involved in the opium trade.

So, to pass the time, the guide gives out opium.