Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

by Thomas Dormandy

This extraordinary book explores the entire history of the world's most fascinating drug, revealing opium's power to relieve suffering, inspire great art, and promote medical advances but also to destroy individuals, families, and even nations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300175329
• ISBN13: 9780300175325
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"