Opium
Subtitle: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780811824118
Subjects: Sociology - General; Social Science; Drug Abuse; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; History; Medical / History; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Opium; Opium abuse; Opium trade
First sentence: Opium: potent evocative, it is a word with the power to intoxicate both speaker and listener, a word that implies languor, mystery and a sort of sinister beauty.