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According to the World Health Organization, there are about 50 million drug users worldwide, of which about 3.8 million drug addicts.
Opium resin is extracted and processed from the fruit of the opium poppy (also known as poppy). The East Asian countries in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century has been immersed in the haze of drugs and the consequences for the horrible truth.
Below are images of opium addicts - the "dry corpse" because "brown fairy" in the early twentieth century.
1906, opium production in the world has reached shocking figure is 41,000 tons. Before the discovery of the fire and smoke like cigarettes, chewing or drinking it often opium.
In the XVII century - XVIII, appears with a drug called madak - a drug opium mixed with tobacco.
By the nineteenth century, madak banned in China, pure opium smoking more players and then spread around the world.
Big cities such as London, San Francisco, New York, Paris became the focus of "black" on the opium victim.
In this period, like a drug culture attractive and noble. Only the noble family, there's food to be able to "disengaged" from the smoking lamp.
Nineteenth century was also the period opium trade in China's complex and takes place publicly. It became one of the most professional and profits are evil longest in modern times.
The opium spread to Southeast Asia. Since the nineteenth century, major cities such as Rangoon, Batavia, Saigon, Manila neighborhoods are bustling drug trade.
The colonial powers also sought to control trade and tariff setting opium trade, opium smoking is allowed, as long as it is profitable.
Nineteenth century, Britain controlled the drug trade situation, even mixing tobacco and smoking opium as medicine, cheaper prices. All classes can be steeped in ignorance of opium.
From East Asia, opium culture to "traveling" around the city in Europe, from the workers miners, railway and road to gold digging wife have become "prey" of drug traffickers.
"Chinatown" in San Francisco is the point of interest of dealers and addicts. The opium-related Chinese community worldwide. And the "drug shack" became notorious area of many Chinatown.
Nineteenth century, opium is no longer a luxury item for the elite, it becomes an addictive thing, satisfying the needs of all classes of society.
"Confessions of a British man addiction" (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater) by Thomas De Quincey was one of the first to describe the effects of drugs from an addict's perspective on the decade 20, 30 of the XIX century.
Opium can be mixed with tobacco for more affordable prices. However, with the elite, opium smoking like a fun game. People often use special pipe when smoking opium.
A small drop of sticky opium near the mouthpiece hole is very sticky substance. People who smoke, sat leaning beside the lamp, blow into the tube above the coals to heat up the coals radiating.
When opium evaporation, who started inhaling smoke. This is the moment "the first" of the addict.
The opium table lamp - a "patent" combining East - West by the French, British take on Vietnam, China.
The "tent drugs" became notorious area, the addict consumes reclining broken bones in the shabby slum and dirty.
This photo is "selling picture postcards of all time" by Steven Martin, depicting man drunk on opium table lamp, beside him, cats are dim inhale the smoke from all drugs.
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