Among the first accounts of Opium addiction, Confessions of an English Opium Eater was to become an authoritative reference in medicine and among the general public for the symptoms of addiction to opiates.
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Written by Thomas De Quincey, this text is strongly autobiographical, with the author accounting for his life prior to becoming an addict, how he first came to discover and take opium, and his gradual descent into the grip of addiction.
Among the first accounts of Opium addiction, Confessions of an English Opium Eater was to become an authoritative reference in medicine and among the general public for the symptoms of addiction to opiates