“perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common: and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that necessary fear and caution, which should prevent their experiencing the extensive power of this drug: for there are many properties in itm if universally known, that would habituate the use, and make it more in request with us than the Turks themselves: the result of which my knowledge,' he adds, 'must prove a general misfortune.' In the necessity of this conclusion I do not altogether concur” OpiatesMorphineValiumThomas De QuinceyHistory Of AlkaloidsOpium Effect Book:Confessions of an English Opium Eater Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater