CHINESE immigrants and well-to-do Manhattan socialites lie together in drug-induced stupor – victims of the epidemic of opium addiction that spread across America in the late 19th century. Ra… ...

“The Last Opium Den” by Nick Tosches Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon. But I know from my own blissful experience that the opium den lives on.

SAY IT IS AN OPIUM DEN.; Police Claim to Have Arrested Important Prisoners at a House on West Forty-ninth Street. Give this article Nov. 11, 1901 The New York Times Archives See the article in its ...

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 ...

A moment after I've closed the deal, the opium den owner just hands me another 200 doses of opium for free. Now I'm positively swimming in opium. My saloon has more of it than I have food and alcohol.

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 ...

The existence of opium dens in Victorian London’s East End was common knowledge as journalists wrote sensationalized stories, which the public gobbled up.

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 ...

San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." ...