Under the Influence
Subtitle: The Literature of Addiction (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Contributors: Pete Hamill (Foreword)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780375757167
First sentence: It is so long since I first took opium, that if it had been a trifling incident in my life, I might have forgotten its date: but cardinal events are not to be forgotten; and from circumstances connected with it, I remember that it must be referred to the autumn of 1804.