Thomas De Quincey\'s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.
In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid.
Thomas De Quincey\'s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours