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	TheOpiumDen
		The Opium Den is a short walk from Collingwood Railway Station.
		Go to Hoddle Street, walk north, against the traffic and The Opium Den is on the corner of Hoddle St and Yarra Street.
		The entrance to the hotel is on Yarra Street, go to the green door and ring the door bell and someone will come down to settle you in.
	www.opiumden.com.au /accom.htm (211 words)

	Opium and Empire in Victorian Britain
		Although opium has been imported to Britain for hundreds of years for medicinal purposes it was not until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that its use as a pharmaceutical panacea and exotic recreational drug became epidemic within all strata of British society.
		The huge expansion of the growing of opium in India was of course to have great implications for the availability and subsequent use of the drug by its native population.
		Opium had been used in India long before the British came to its shores, but with the imperial expansion of the traditional growing of opium into a great capitalist venture, drug addiction inevitably increased among the native population.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/india/opium.htm (1053 words)

	Opium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Opium (sometimes called GOM an acronym for "God's own medicine") a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum).
		To harvest opium the skin of ripening pods is scored by a sharp The slashes exude a white milky latex which dries to a sticky brown that is scraped off the pods as opium.
		Opium is also illegally processed into heroin and most current drug abuse occurs with processed derivatives rather than raw opium.
	www.freeglossary.com /Opium (1067 words)

	Opium
		The opium dens were often seen as centers for criminal activities and referred to as dives or joints.
		Pipes used to smoke the opium and the smoking habits were known as a ‘yen’ from the verb to ‘smoke’ in the Pecking dialect.
		Writers were drawn to the opium dens in the hopes the opium would help free them from their inhibitions and allow them to have new experience to write about in more expressive ways.
	www.poppiesshop.com /opium/opium.html (1116 words)

	Downtown Opium Dens Attracted Many
		Chinese opium dens or "joints" were most often associated with the laundries.
		When this law failed to curb opium use, city council passed another ordinance in July 1882, declaring that "no person shall even visit an establishment where opium is smoked." When this ordinance also failed to stem activity, the newspapers declared war on the opium dens and the Chinese.
		In his history of opium, Martin Booth speculates the reason the opium dens in America were being closed down had more to do with the fact that the whites were mixing with the Chinese and less to do with the fact that opium was a highly addictive, destructive drug.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/21_opium.htm (1755 words)

	Tales of old Shanghai - Opium
		Opium was at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century.
		Opium was finally driven from Shanghai in 1949 when the Communists marched in, closed down the opium dens, and forced all the addicts into rehabilitation.
		But while the opium trade is forbidden by law it must inevitably be carried on by fraud and violence; and hence must arise frequent conflicts and collisions between the Chinese preventive service and the parties who are engaged in carrying on the opium trade.
	www.talesofoldchina.com /shanghai/business/t-opium.htm (2636 words)

	Opium den - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An opium den is an establishment where opium is sold and consumed.
		Opium dens were prevalent in many parts of the world in the nineteenth century.
		In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian visits the Opium Dens of London when indulging in the pleasures of life whether moral or immoral, subject to the influencial character Lord Henry and his hedonistic outlook on life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opium_den (298 words)

	"The Last Opium Den" by Nick Tosches - Salon
		Thus it's not surprising that in "The Last Opium Den," he nourishes visions of "dark, brocade-curtained, velvet-cushioned places of luxurious decadence, filled with the mingled smoke and scents of burning joss sticks and the celestial, forbidden, fabulous stuff itself.
		It insists that opium dens of all sorts are extinct, even in Asia.
		But it was an opium den all the same, perfumed with the Elysian smoke.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/03/07/tosches/index.html (731 words)

	French Indochina: The Friendly Neighborhood Opium Den
		The imperial court continued its efforts, which were largely unsuccessful, to restrict opium smuggling from China, until military defeat at the hands of the French forced it to establish an imperial opium franchise.
		Opium was imported from India, taxed at 10 percent of* value, and sold by licensed Chinese merchants to all comers.
		Opium revenues climbed steadily, and by 1938 accounted for 15 percent of all colonial tax revenues-the highest in Southeast Asia.
	www.drugtext.org /library/books/McCoy/book/21.htm (1585 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I can only assume after reading The Last Opium Den that when prehistoric man leapt for joy at his first cultivation of fire, he celebrated it not as a tool used for warmth and cooking, but as a means to smoke opium.
		He alludes to the medicinal properties of opium and its use in the treament of diabetes, of which he is a sufferer.
		Opium dens were officially banned in San Francisco in 1887, though many operated in secrecy nationwide until the late 1950s.
	www.free-times.com /Reviews/lastopiumden.html (634 words)

	Opium Wars
		The sale of opium had been made illegal in China in 1800, but the fl-market narcotics trade flourished in defiance of the law, and there were an estimated two million Chinese opium addicts.
		On March 10, 1839, Lin proclaimed that the opium trade would no longer be tolerated in Canton, and he began arresting known opium dealers in the local schools and naval barracks.
		He advised the spirit that he “should shortly be dissolving opium and draining it off to the great ocean,” and suggested that all sea creatures should retreat to deeper water “to avoid being contaminated,” until the opium was completely run off.
	www.oldnewspublishing.com /opium.htm (2546 words)

	Opium in Northern Thailand
		The production of opium has been illegal since 1959, but despite the attempts of the government to eliminate it, the drug is still produced in large amounts.
		The advantages to the hill tribes of opium farming are that it has high value for small volume, it can be stored without spoilage, it is an easy crop to grow on land that would otherwise be infertile, the dealers come direct to the growers and there is no competition with lowland farmers.
		Opium is the source of a wide variety of drugs given the general name of opiates.
	www.track-of-the-tiger.com /html/opium.html (1257 words)

	opium den definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		opium den definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		place for using opium: a place where opium is sold and smoked, especially one that has facilities where people using the drug can stay while under its influence
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861697266/opium_den.html (92 words)

	125 Years of the War on Drugs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite widespread antipathy to the dens, the scope of the laws was surprisingly modest.
		The dens continued as a vice industry and source of graft for the rest of the century.
		Seen in retrospect, the opium den era was remarkably benign.
	www.drugsense.org /dpfca/opiumlaw.html (757 words)

	Lovers of Opium Den
		And they could not depart from each other and for that reason they had to meet daily in a corner of a gathering place called by lovers as the Opium Den and the Opium Den is a Chinese name for a place where lovers can meet and exchange love affairs at a free time.
		They did what they wanted and they departed the Opium Den of lovers as their last meeting place for their hearts here.
		Thus it became very well known that this Opium Den of lovers remains to be a very famous human concern for futuristic development all together.
	www.drhashimbehbehani.com /opiumden.html (414 words)

	Opium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The leading legal producer of opium is the Gregory process, whereby the entire poppy, excluding roots and leaves, is mashed and stewed in dilute acid solutions.
		The UN Office on Drugs and Crime predicted a 6,100 tonne harvest of opium in year 2006 alone, and considers Afghanistan accountable for 92% [1] of the world's opium supply.
		In 1957 the physician Douglas Hubble wrote an article called "Opium Addiction and English Literature" that chronicles the use of opium by prominent English writers, and its influence on their works [4].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opium (2618 words)

	Part 9: Restyling the Secret of the Opium Den
		"There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new" (196).
		The opium den episode in Wilde's novel is in many ways typical of a genre that flourished in late Victorian novels, tales, and periodicals--a genre that provides a glimpse, if not of the dens themselves, of the strategies used to represent the opium den.
		Most opium den narratives promise to expose the secrets of the occult den and, crucially, promise that the secrets it reveals are objective truths.
	www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/8opium.htm (898 words)

	OPIUM DEN - opium trade, club opium, opium garden miami, belladonna and opium, making opium
		OPIUM is quite obvious to adults that you build a tolerance from there.
		The dregs were pure tincture of opium on the nerves in the fridge for a little coke tonight, not hurting anyone at all.
		I remember people taking prescription smack in the body, but OPIUM may take a while for the money or the other parts of the plant are not necessary to a better class of pub than I. A period of time involved in a cafe overlooking the Veux Port.
	amedat.web.fc2.com /opium/opium-den.html (1187 words)

	Japanese Rule One (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Under these regulations an Opium Monopoly was set up to strictly control the import, manufacture, sale and consumption of the drug.
		However in 1897 Japanese engineers were dispatched to British India and Persia to study the cultivation and refining of opium, and plans were put underway to create some degree of self-sufficiency in opium supply through plantations in Formosa and especially in Korea.
		In 1922 this factory was producing around 50,000 kg of prepared opium and 4,000 kg of morphine.
	takaoclub.com /opium/japanrule1.htm (668 words)

	usnews.com: In the Afghan badlands, add drugs to a devil’s brew (10/5/01)
		Afghanistan has been a country awash in opium and many of its leaders have been the principal feeders at the trough.
		Opium and heroin may become a target of the U.S. war against the Taliban.
		Afghanistan became the world’s largest producer of raw opium in the 1990s, and the drug trade is seen as an important revenue stream, particularly to the Taliban.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/terror/011005.htm (709 words)

	An Opium Den
		Passing through an alley-way, we entered a perfectly dark court where nothing was to be seen but so much to be smelled that the imagination became more painful than the reality could have been.
		A table stood in the centre, and around three sides ran a double tier of shelves and bunks, covered with matting and with round logs of wood with a space hollowed out, cushioned or bare, for pillows.
		But although every one was smoking, it was so early in the evening that the drug had not as yet wrought its full effect, and all were wide awake, talking, laughing, and apparently enjoying themselves hugely.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/History/1870/leslie.htm (1068 words)

	The Opium Den, George Street
		After eating at Opium Den, I realized just how aptly named it is: the only way such a restaurant could stay in business would be to have a little drug trade on the side.
		Opium Den certainly doesn't recommend itself for eating, but then again, who knows what goes on in the back room.
		The Opium Den might look slightly dark and sinister from the outside, but inside, especially as it fills up over the course of the evening, it is comfortable and friendly.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /food/rest/opiumden.htm (832 words)

	Prints Old & Rare - Drugs and Opium page
		Dark, engraved scene inside a Chinese opium den where smokers are lying on wooden bunks.
		The proprietor is bringing a tray of opium to one of his clients.
		Elegantly hand colored engraved images titled, "New York City-The Opium Dens in Pell and Mott Streets-How the Opium Habit is Developed," drawn by Frank Yeager from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
	www.printsoldandrare.com /drugs (507 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: The Last Opium Den
		One of the girls is stroking his crotch, another masturbates while wagging her tongue and the third is having her nipple squeezed between the old writer's thumb and forefinger.
		Anyway, here's the spoiler: Tosches never finds the opium den of his dreams, but he does find the dark sticky ball and the proper pipe to smoke it with.
		He tells us in the beginning of the story that he's diabetic and it was brought to his attention opium was once considered to be effective in the treatment of diabetes.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=B000IFS0SG (945 words)

	Opium den (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rajput troops opium den fighting for the opium king bans opium and morphine.
		Has been reported opium den to have toxicological properties but no longer in bengal, bihar and orissa.
		Opium den bayer begins opium den production in southeast asia; the former could.
	opium.beaconfinder.net /opium-den.html (318 words)

	"Opium" 1919
		While visiting Nung Chiang's opium den, he is approached by a young lady in a rickshaw who pleads with him to rescue her from a horrible fate.
		The professor is held hostage in the opium den by Nung Chiang who tells him that he had been happily married until seventeen years ago when another European had an affair and impregnated Nung Chiang's wife.
		After he has given his lecture on the evils of opium, he is greeted by a disheveled figure while leaving the campus who is the long lost Richard Armstrong who had disappeared in China seventeen years before.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /DeBartoloreviews/rdbopium.html (1101 words)

	Blogging... Walk The Talk: The Opium Dens of Singapore
		In the Chinese quarter of the town, we entered a few opium-shops, but they were all empty, and we were told by the Chinamen to return in the evening about eight or nine, when they began to fill.
		Government farms out, for a fixed revenue per annum, the privilege of licensing a certain number of these opium-shops, which is a speculation to the man who takes it, and who is called the opium farmer....
		The landlord weighs for five cents a small piece of the drug, which is mixed with bang and other compounds, and has the consistence of an extract.
	www.blogthetalk.com /2006/11/opium-dens-of-singapore.html (639 words)

	MySpace.com - Opium Den - ALLSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - Alternative / Gothic / Progressive - www.myspace.com/opiumdenband
		Opium Den's "Clandestine" is now available on CD Baby go to this link to purchase.
		The name, Opium Den, as Annette Farrington explains, the name invokes a multi layered meaning the social context and the literal meaning of an opium den.
		“As a nation we are asleep in an Opium Den” Asleep to consciousness and clarity.
	www.myspace.com /opiumdenband (957 words)

	::: OPIUM MAGAZINE ::: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alright, we'll be the first to say that Opium's (Re)launch has not gone smoothly, but we want to write and let you know that we're seriously giving it our all.
		We feel awful about this, but we want to deliver Opium to you as it deserves to be delivered: with style, substance, and knee-tickling turns of phrase.
		We wanted Opium to be an undeniable destination spiked with whimsy and intrigue, an irresistible daily must-see that trumps life’s daily sobriety.
	www.opiummagazine.com /Index.aspx?storyid=2 (506 words)

	PU: Opium Den
		The Opium Den is our contribution to a surrealistic Romantic appreciation....historically appropriate given De Quincey's, Shelley's, and Keats' predilections and addictions....for the conference organizers, a tad personally appropriate since our neurotransmitters long ago stopped sending meaningful messages....and for others, we hope, a place of speculation and frivolity (in graduate school?!
		Also, in one of the alcoves of the den you dimly see two people on beanbag chairs.
		Being a dynamic process, the Opium Den's debaucheries really require the interactive environment of the MOO.
	prometheus.cc.emory.edu /opium.html (189 words)

	Opium Den (closed) New York, NY - Clubplanet.com
		Opium Den is a small, plush lounge at the end of a residential section of East 3rd St in the east village.
		Opium Den is a great mid-week pitstop, although at the weekend, it can get alittle busy and resultantly cramped.
		We're not sure if you currently have any meetups set up at Opium Den because you are not logged in.
	www.clubplanet.com /Venues/70946/New-York/Opium-Den (507 words)

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