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

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PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' Which means opium dens on the street, people dying off, dozing off on the street, it's becoming a social problem.

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 ...