Opium
Subtitle: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: October 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781553650584
Subjects: Social History; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Psychopathology - Addiction; Social Science / Popular Culture
First sentence: The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum-the poppy that brings sleep, the source of the "drowsy syrup" in Shakespeare's Othello-is the beautiful flower that answers Farrere's desperate question of where to find his precious opium.