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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… ...
We think of opium dens as a distinctly 19th-century phenomenon, but that may not be the case. Following a question to Curious Melbourne, we delve into the city's history to find out whether they ...
Lee You, a Chinaman, has kept for some time an opium "joint" on the top floor of the five-story tenement house No. 5 Mulberry street. Capt.
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 ...
Capt. Kealy, of the Fourteenth Precinct, with a squad of police, made a descent late last night on the notorious "opium joint" kept by an old Chinaman named "Jim" Doo, at No. 97 Crosby-street, and ...
Opium dens in San Francisco were patronized "by the vicious and the depraved," politicians of the 1800s claimed.
The most dangerous illicit drug ever concocted, fentanyl, has turned entire blocks of America’s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones.
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The Swanky NYC Bar That Started Out Of An Old Opium Den - MSNThe history of opium dens in New York City is steeped in anti-immigrant panic that commingled legitimate fears of substance abuse with fictionalized racist stereotypes. Newspaper comics and staged ...
1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...
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 ...
Horace Longstreet operates the most brutal drug empires in the south, dealing in peyote, cocoa leaves, laudanum and opium. When he learns a young transporter known as the 'Cat' has been skimming ...
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