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By 1817, De Quincey was consuming more than 20,000 milligrams of morphine a day. De Quincey’s book Confessions of an Opium Eater (1821) achieved a legendary status in Western societies as one of the most popular texts describing the influence of opium. In George Pettey’s The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment (1913), the author critically…
Known simply as Oscar Wilde. “Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move.”
Reportedly, Hugo was a prolific sex addict who attended brothels so often that his death was honored by brothels across France, which closed or lowered their blinds in mourning.
Though he only briefly experimented with opium, Balzac reportedly went through 50 cups of coffee a day to support his writing habit.
He literally wrote The Gambler (1866) in 26 days in order to make enough money to pay off his gambling debts and promptly continue gambling.
The author of Robinson Crusoe once defended gin and other distilled spirits out of a nationalist desire to keep wealth in the country and promote British liquor over foreign dinks. It’s also worth mentioning that his published defenses were funded by distillery companies, effectively making him paid propaganda to sell liquor while blaming the character of individuals for the sins and crimes…
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Famously, the poet used opium initially to treat physical symptoms resulting from rheumatic fever and anxiety, but eventually it became a lifelong dependence that severely impacted his life.
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