Confessions of an EBay opium addict

Scary first person account by a guy who buys "decorative" poppy pods on eBay and uses them to make opium tea. He admits being hopelessly hooked on the vile tasting stuff, and has spent all his money supporting his habit.

By a month, I was drinking the juice of upward of 60 crushed pods per day--swallowing gallons of liquid and pissing out about $300 a week worth of tea matter. Bowl after bowl of blissful narcotic bloat that I sucked down with a silly straw.

Often, late into a session, I’d get that uncontrollable opiate itch.

Raking my skin with a giant plastic comb seemed to help. Occasionally, I’d bleed or accidentally scrape a piece of a mole right off.

The thing is, heroin gets you addicted to heroin. But opium is 40 to 50 different alkaloids, meaning 40 to 50 different drugs I was becoming addicted to.

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Reader comment: Dan says: "Peter Thompson, the opium tea guy, seems to be continuing where Dr. Thompson left off. Here's a link I found to another drug tale with the same byline."

Reader comment: Bob sends the following screen shot of Google ads for poppies that is running with the article (Click image for enlargement).