Laudanum

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Notable addicted figures: Lord Byron, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Iolo Morgannwg, Charles Dickens, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Branwell Bronte, William Wilberforce, Merwether Lewis...