These preliminary confessions or introductory narrative of the youthful adventures which laid the foundation of the writerÆs habit of opium-eating in after-life it has been judged proper to premise for three several reasons Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 1821 is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey about his laudanum opium and alcohol addiction and its effect on his life First published anonymously in September and O...