Piece in last weekend's Observer featuring my old drug guru and friend William Burroughs, on the cure pioneered by a doctor Dent using apomorphine, a non-narcotic morphine derivative. Burroughs swore by Dr Dent and apomorphine which got him off junk after several years in thrall to the stuff.
Oddly though, the longish feature never mentioned the most noticeable thing about apomorphine: that it's a powerful and violent emetic. Heroin and morphine will cause the uninitiated user to throw up as often as not, but no one can take apomorphine without being violently sick pretty well immediately. Burroughs kept pretty quiet about it too. I suppose he didn't want to put people off 'the sanity drug' as he sometimes called it.
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Cure for opiate addiction new
Cure for opiate addiction new
