Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden - Softcover

Farrere, Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157951216X ISBN 13: 9781579512163

Verlag: Ronin Publishing, 2016

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Interest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than ever before. Secondly, the Federal government s recent crack down on popular prescription opiates like OxcyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin so they are increasingly hard and costly to obtain on the black market. A recent study reveals that people who had recently abused prescription opiates are 19 times more likely to try heroin.

Biografía del autor:

Claude Farrere, a pseudonym of Frederic-Charles Bargone (1876--1957), was the author of several sensational novels set in exotic locations like Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki. Known as a "grand connoisseur" of opium smoking who sometimes puffed down twenty to thirty pipes in a session, Farrere introduced his contemporary French literati, artists, and musicians to the pleasures of fume d'opium. Farrere, a large man, is reputed to have smoked his own weight in opium during his life. He enjoyed "pipes" until his death at ninety years old. Pierre Louys, (1870--1925) was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes. He is known as seeking to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection. Michael Horowitz is Timothy Leary's archivist and actress Winona Ryder's father. (Tim is Ryder's God-father). He founded the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library,the largest library of drug literature. It is rumored that Horowitz and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are planning a "biopic" -- biographical movie -- about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas. Francis Moraes, PhD, a research physicist and chemist, was a physics professor at Portland State University in Portland,Oregon where he studied the heroin subculture. He is author of Heroin User's Handbook, and Little Book of Heroin and was a philosophy professor at University of Oregon. Alexander King was a story illustrator, figure painter and author with an eye-brow raising lifestyle. Time magazine described him as "an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember mutton-chopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories of the life of all these earlier Kings."

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• Verlag: Ronin Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 157951216X
• ISBN 13: 9781579512163
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210