Told through a dead colleague's diary, a young country doctor recounts his own rapid descent into morphine addiction after first using the drug to relieve a nervous pain.
Books mentioned in Morphine (1)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “"I seem to recall in War and Peace there's a description of how Petya Rostov, when half asleep, experienced the same state... Leo Tolstoy's a remarkable writer!" — the narrator's own genuine reflection.”