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Book Synopsis Green Mountain Opium Eaters by : Gary G. Shattuck
Download or read book Green Mountain Opium Eaters written by Gary G. Shattuck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all contributed to the problem. Those conflicts were compounded by a hands-off legislature focused on prohibiting the consumption of alcohol. Historian Gary G. Shattuck traces this unusual aspect of Vermont's past.
Book Synopsis Green Mountain Opium Eaters: A History of Early Addiction in Vermont by : Gary G. Shattuck
Download or read book Green Mountain Opium Eaters: A History of Early Addiction in Vermont written by Gary G. Shattuck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth-century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3.3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all contributed to the problem. Those conflicts were compounded by a hands-off legislature focused on prohibiting the consumption of alcohol. Historian Gary G. Shattuck traces this unusual aspect of Vermont's past.
Download or read book The Opium-Eater written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath. Thomas De Quincey -- the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead -- was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six children were trapped in the mountains of England's Lake District. Even more gripping is what happened after. This is the true tale of how Thomas De Quincey became the Opium-Eater, brought to life by award-winning storyteller David Morrell. An afterword contains numerous photographs of the dramatic locations in the story.
Download or read book Opium written by John H. Halpern and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the "authoritative, engaging, and accessible" history of the flower that helped to build (Booklist) -- and now threatens -- modern society. Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even as the overdose crisis ravages our nation -- straining our prison system, dividing families, and defying virtually every legislative solution to treat it -- few understand how it came to be. Opium tells the "fascinating" (Lit Hub) and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis, "mak[ing] timely and startling connections among painkillers, politics, finance, and society" (Laurence Bergreen). The story begins with the discovery of poppy artifacts in ancient Mesopotamia, and goes on to explore how Greek physicians and obscure chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial empires marketed it around the world, and eventually how international drug companies developed a range of powerful synthetic opioids that led to an epidemic of addiction. Throughout, Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein reveal the fascinating role that opium has played in building our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most importantly, they disentangle how crucial misjudgments, patterns of greed, and racial stereotypes served to transform one of nature's most effective painkillers into a source of unspeakable pain -- and how, using the insights of history, state-of-the-art science, and a compassionate approach to the illness of addiction, we can overcome today's overdose epidemic. This urgent and masterfully woven narrative tells an epic story of how one beautiful flower became the fascination of leaders, tycoons, and nations through the centuries and in their hands exposed the fragility of our civilization. An NPR Best Book of the Year"A landmark project." -- Dr. Andrew Weil"Engrossing and highly readable." -- Sam Quinones"An astonishing journey through time and space." -- Julie Holland, MD"The most important, provocative, and challenging book I've read in a long time." -- Laurence Bergreen
Book Synopsis The Opium Eaters by : Stephen Carver
Download or read book The Opium Eaters written by Stephen Carver and published by Banovallum. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the brilliant Oxford drop-out and freelance journalist Thomas De Quincey published his seminal article Confessions of an English Opium Eater in 1821, he was following the old adage 'write about what you know'. Writing in coffee shops to avoid debt collectors, the 36-year-old proto-Romantic had been addicted to opium for almost 20 years. If produced today, his Confessions would read more like Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting; with illicit drug deals, the constant threat of arrest and the whole miserable, sordid world of the outcast addict, demonized by politicians and mass media. But in the 19th century laudanum, a tincture of opium dissolved in alcohol, was as ubiquitous and legal as aspirin is today. With the notable exception of William Wordsworth, all the English Romantics and many Victorian artists and writers were users. In the wider political context, the opium trade was the mainstay of the East India Company and therefore at the heart of the British economy to the point that the Empire fought two wars with China, the major buyer, when its rulers tried to outlaw the trade. In The Opium Eaters, cultural historian Dr Stephen Carver examines the impact of opium abuse on the literature and politics of the 19th century - from Lord Byron sipping laudanum out of a crystal decanter to the opium dens of London's East End. He tells the story of the writers, the 'psychonauts' of their age, from De Quincey and the Romantics to the late-Victorians and early-Modernists, as well as looking at literary works which used opium as a major plot device, such as The Moonstone, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Uncle Silas, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In parallel, he covers the history of the scientific development of opium into morphine and heroin, changing societal views, and drug-related crime.
Book Synopsis The Opioid Crisis by : David E. Newton
Download or read book The Opioid Crisis written by David E. Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of opioid use throughout human history, current problems surrounding opioid abuse, and suggested approaches to solving these problems. Dependence on opioids has grown into an epidemic, its effects felt globally and most of all in the United States. The Opioid Crisis: A Reference Handbook provides a detailed and accurate history of opioid use, helping readers to understand how the crisis developed, as well as a review of problems arising out of this crisis and some of the solutions that have been proposed. The volume additionally comprises ten essays from individuals who have a personal or educational connection to the crisis and short biographical and explanatory essays on important individuals and organizations working to mitigate the opioid crisis by supporting research of the biological systems implicated in opioid dependence and raising awareness of the challenges of addiction in America today. It also provides resources for readers who want to continue their study of the topic or pursue research in the field.
Book Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by : Thomas De Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the first authoritative works on drug usage and addiction, and it was so influential that it inspired some contemporary writers to their own usage. Arthur Conan Doyle used it as the basis for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a startling firsthand account by English translator and essayist THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) of his addiction to opium, which he initially began taking to soothe the pain of his nerve disorders and eventually resorted to for its capacity to enhance his creativity. This series of essays-on everything from the pleasures and pains of opium use to the impact on a user's wallet-first appeared anonymously in the magazine London in 1821, and were such a hit that they were soon collected in this book, first published the next year. They remain a compelling look inside the mind of an addict.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library, in Cincinnati by : Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library, in Cincinnati written by Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, of Cincinnati by : Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, of Cincinnati written by Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Suspiria de Profundis by : Thomas de Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Suspiria de Profundis written by Thomas de Quincey and published by de Quincey Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Book Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Large Print Edition by : Thomas De Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Large Print Edition written by Thomas De Quincey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was an autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey. Originally published anonymously, it later became the work by which everything else he wrote would be judged, and found wanting. De Quincey writes about his addiction (though they didn't call it that back in the 1800s) to laudanum (opium and alcohol), and the effect it had on his life and relationships. It remains one of the best books ever written about addiction. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.
Book Synopsis The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by : Thomas De Quincey
Download or read book The Confessions of an English Opium-eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by : Thomas De Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was an autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey. Originally published anonymously, it later became the work by which everything else he wrote would be judged, and found wanting. De Quincey writes about his addiction (though they didn't call it that back in the 1800s) to laudanum (opium and alcohol), and the effect it had on his life and relationships. It remains one of the best books ever written about addiction.
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Book Synopsis Confessions of an Opium Eater by : Thomas De Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..." From its first appearance, the literary style of the Confessions attracted attention and comment.
