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Opium, in its raw form is likely to be contaminated with bacteria and fungi. Opium addiction occurs very rapidly, sometimes within weeks. Opium is the crudest form and also the least potent of the Opiates. The effects felt from opium last approximately 4 hours. |
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Using Opium
Today opium is sold on the street as a powder or dark brown solid and is smoked, eaten, or injected.
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Fig. 1.- Smoker's Outfit: lamp, sponge, shell with opium,
bowl-cleaners, sicissors, neddle, horn box for opium, and tray.
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The equipment of an opium smoker. The ornate nature
of the pipe and the lamp, the artistic shape of the palette, and the inscription
on the handle of the scraper suggest that the owner of these items was
a person of some wealth.
Benjamin Broomhall, Evangelistation of the World, 1886. |
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Upper-class woman and man smoking opium, most likely
in their won home, probably in Peking.
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An opium den in Canton, 1919. The smokers seem to be
scholars.
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An underground opium den with mats for smokers to recline
on.
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