Four well-to-do white women lie around a Chinese man, all clearly intoxicated, in New York in 1926 Credit: News Dog Media. These harrowing images give an insight into what these opium dens looked ...

“The Last Opium Den” is premised not just on the idea that glamorous, plush opium dens are impossible to find. It insists that opium dens of all sorts are extinct, even in Asia.

Can opium dens and secret tunnels get people to stop for lunch in this Bay Area city? Historians question tales of “the most desperate town in the West,” but Pleasanton hopes it sells.

In 1875, having found that many white men and women patronized the local "opium dens," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors attempted to check the "growing evil." To that end, they imposed hefty ...

Opium Dens Catered to All Classes . Sketch of an opium den in London’s East End. The existence of opium dens in Victorian London’s East End was common knowledge as journalists wrote ...

Opium dens, dodgy dentists & dog meat cafes – Inside ‘world’s most crowded city’ where 50,000 people lived for 40 years. Despite the city's grim reality, some residents found it peaceful ...