“No less an authority than William Burroughs has called Confessions ‘the first, and still the best, book about drug addiction… No other author since has given such a completely analytical description of what it is like to be a junky from the first use to the effects of withdrawal.'”
The Washington Post explores the life of “writer, essayist and ‘opium eater'” Thomas De Quincey.
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