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Opium Books
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as opium)
avg rating 3.29 — 11,005 ratings — published 1821
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as opium)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,554 ratings — published 2008
River of Smoke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as opium)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,040 ratings — published 2011
The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as opium)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,196 ratings — published 2002
Opium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as opium)
avg rating 3.85 — 273 ratings — published 1994
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as opium)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,598 ratings — published 2024
Les Paradis artificiels (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,376 ratings — published 1860
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,006 ratings — published 1937
Narcopolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.44 — 7,906 ratings — published 2012
A Sunless Sea (William Monk, #18)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,159 ratings — published 2012
The House of Velvet and Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.35 — 7,952 ratings — published 2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.66 — 13,083 ratings — published 1870
Addicted (Addicted, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as opium)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,872 ratings — published 2009
Opium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 4.28 — 207 ratings — published
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,076 ratings — published 2018
Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 4.15 — 73 ratings — published 2002
Opium Inc.: How a Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.96 — 147 ratings — published
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,326 ratings — published 2021
The Pure and the Impure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,355 ratings — published 1932
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 4.31 — 58,437 ratings — published 1966
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,498 ratings — published 2015
From Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,344 ratings — published 1999
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,311 ratings — published 1955
The Moonstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.91 — 98,274 ratings — published 1868
Hero of My Heart (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.39 — 531 ratings — published 2013
Scoundrel's Kiss (Medieval, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.56 — 126 ratings — published 2010
The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.78 — 30,182 ratings — published 1985
The Viscount's Addiction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.81 — 566 ratings — published 2007
The Sins of Lord Easterbrook (Rothwell #4)
by (shelved 2 times as opium)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,032 ratings — published 2009
The 'fan kwae' at Canton before treaty days, 1825-1844 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1882
Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1839
Peter Parker and the Opening of China (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 3)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1973
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,124 ratings — published 2019
Die Nacht so groß wie wir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 3.23 — 268 ratings — published
Hard Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,861 ratings — published 2021
Vom Ende der Einsamkeit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.38 — 62,088 ratings — published 2016
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,128 ratings — published 2021
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,982 ratings — published 2020
CHANG HSI AND THE TREATY OF NANKING 1842 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.08 — 504 ratings — published 2012
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,351 ratings — published 2010
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,386 ratings — published 1853
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,634 ratings — published 1979
The Quincunx (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,144 ratings — published 1989
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,837,154 ratings — published 1890
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.04 — 543,766 ratings — published 1985
The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,277 ratings — published 1987
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 4.06 — 180,692 ratings — published 1994
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as opium)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,974 ratings — published 1939
“For unknown reasons, rare depressed patients even today will respond to no medicine except opiates, and a few researchers into depression have become newly interested in these substances. Fifty years ago, most patients who felt better on opium probably valued
it for its ability to ameliorate scattered symptoms, such as sleeplessness, anxiety, and a general sense of malaise. Perhaps for mistaken reasons, Kuhn took the occasional success of opium to set the standard
in the search for antidepressants. The hallmark of opium was that it restored energy in the depressed without being inherently energizing.
Kuhn set our "to find a drug acting in some specific manner against melancholy that is better than opium"- that is, a nonstimulating antidepressant.”
― Listening to Prozac
it for its ability to ameliorate scattered symptoms, such as sleeplessness, anxiety, and a general sense of malaise. Perhaps for mistaken reasons, Kuhn took the occasional success of opium to set the standard
in the search for antidepressants. The hallmark of opium was that it restored energy in the depressed without being inherently energizing.
Kuhn set our "to find a drug acting in some specific manner against melancholy that is better than opium"- that is, a nonstimulating antidepressant.”
― Listening to Prozac
“A compleat suppression of every species of stimulating indulgence, if attainable at all, must be a work of peculiar difficulty, since it has to encounter not only the force of habit, but propensities in human nature. In every age & nation, some exhilarating or exciting substance seems to have been sought for, as a relief from the languor of idleness, or the fatigues of labor. In the rudest state of Society, whether in hot or cold climates, a passion for ardent spirits is in a manner universal. In the progress of refinement, beverages less intoxicating, but still of an exhilarating quality, have been more or less common. And where all these sources of excitement have been unknown or been totally prohibited by a religious faith, substitutes have been found in opium, in the nut of the betel, the root of the Ginseng, or the leaf of the Tobo. plant.”
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