Sentences with phrase «opium addiction»

As he stocks up on medicines and laudanum to feed his own opium addiction, Sumner receives an ominous warning: The captain of the Volunteer, Arthur Brownlee, has a bad track record, a beggar tells Sumner.

Ghosh provides information on many subjects: enforced poppy cultivation in India, opium factories and the opium trade with China; opium addiction; the caste system; bore waves; foreign traders in Canton; Chinese pirates.

Sherlock Holmes seems like a pretty interesting guy, what with the opium addiction, the violin playing, the crime solving, and that long - simmering erotic tension with Dr. John Watson.

Their search for protection proves futile, until Jacob, dulled by an opium addiction but still deadly, joins the effort.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan delivers a nicely nuanced performance as Picasso's friend, Carles Casagemas, a young artist who could never gain a foothold in his career and whose life spiraled downward in a haze of alcoholism, opium addiction and unrequited love for a young prostitute named Germaine (Emma Appleton).

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Laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol) became an addiction.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

Since Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium - Eater vaulted him into the English canon in 1821 — and certainly since beat writer William S. Burroughs's Junky, in 1953 — literature has seen no shortage of addiction sagas.