From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium lured many toward illicit ...

Is the skull a reminder of the transitory nature of life? I also think of the Victorian Opium dens in London and the influence of and trade with the Chinese people who ran the dens. It makes me ...

Poon Wung, a jolly man, "sleek and fat," was the owner of the laundromat, a front for a “hop hung,” or opium den. Inside the shack’s front door was an empty room, and a curtain hiding the ...