Samuel Taylor Coleridge took two grains of opium before writing
Jean Cocteau wrote Opium, Diary of an Addict to document his recovery by way of day-to-day journal entries. He said: ‘To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning enjoyed her daily dose of opium
Hunter S Thompson was addicted to hallucinogenics and cocaine
Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead using the amphetamine Benzedrine as an anti-fatigue drug.
William S Burroughs found plenty to write about with his heroin addiction.
George Carlin was known for his drug abuse, which included pharmaceuticals, marijuana, and cocaine.
Allen Ginsberg used nitrous oxide and marijuana to get him into what he called ‘an exalted state of mind’.
Charles Baudelaire enjoyed marijuana and opium.
Aleister Crowley gave many detailed descriptions of his lifelong experiences with heroin, morphine, mescaline, marijuana, cocaine, ether, and opium.
John Keats was addicted to opium.
Norman Mailer was a drug addict and alcoholic. He was arrested multiple times, punched fellow writer Gore Vidal in the face, and stabbed at least one of his six wives
Philip K Dick's drug of choice was amphetamine: everything from crystal meth to dextroamphetamine.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 60 000 words in six days using cocaine.
Aldous Huxley took large amounts of mescaline. He also experimented with LSD and mushrooms.
Ken Kesey became a lifelong psychedelic drug advocate.
Thomas de Quincey lived his opium addiction. He wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
David Foster Wallace was addicted to anti-depressants and alcohol. He commited suicide by hanging himself when he was 46.
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