When Joseph Jarrow’s melodrama, “The Queen of Chinatown,” played at Heuck’s Over-the-Rhine theater, reviewers praised its authenticity. The Cincinnati Post [27 January 1900] claimed the play offered a ...

How many times this week had he gone to see the dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a ...

In this episode of “Stories from the Collection,” Emma from the DEA Museum highlights an opium pipe and explores the history of early opium use and legislation in the United States. The exhibit ...

Yesterday we heard some history on the term "doping" in sports and today, language columnist Ben Zimmer explains where the term "pipe dream" comes from. The origin of "pipe dream" has to do with opium ...