It's no secret that musicians, directors, and actors use illegal substances to fuel their creativity. Some have also publicly admitted that their greatest hits were created under the influence of drugs. It is clearly no different even with thinkers and writers, who also often resort to drugs when inspiration leaves them. For these artists, you probably wouldn't think that they created their works under the influence of very special conditions.
Ever since we hear that musicians use substances while making music. It seems to have become that somehow self-evident and that fans also condone such actions, because artists are creative people who must never leave inspiration. But when people hear that writers or thinkers resort to drugs, often happens to arouse in fans feeling judged or blamed.
Before they might arouse in you feelings of disgust, read on, why are these six writers resorted to substances during the creation of their works.
Stephen King: The 80s
Stephen King it doesn't even try to hide the fact that it was many of his works written under the influence of cocaine. Besides, he shouldn't even remember that there are any wrote. In an interview for Rolling Stone said he had been using cocaine since 1978 to 1986, during which time he wrote around 10 novels – That, The Dark Tower, Cat Graveyard and The Stand.
Ken Kesey: The LSD Club
It was in 1959 Kesey worked as an assistant psychiatrist at the hospital (memories of this experience were shown in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), where he participated in some experiments. He was part of a study on the effect of LSD on human body. In 1964, he then created law in the USA the psychedelic revolution, namely the group "Merry Pranksters", which she popularized LSD.
Charles Dickens: Victorian Times
Dickens lived in the Victorian era when usage was opium and cocaine popular, affordable and also allowed by doctors. Sometimes 'drugs' were even prescribed as antidepressants. This great writer is supposed to be addicted to drugs, he is also said to be strange and have strange visions. Book A Christmas song clearly confirms this to us, as you will when reading it cocines jumped up.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Diet
According to the words Annie Cohen-Solal, who wrote a biography of this great existentialist, Sartre's daily diet consisted of two packs of cigarettes, a pipe, 1/4 bottle of liquor, 200 milligrams of amphetamine, 15 grams of aspirin, packs of barbiturates and a mixture of amphetamine and aspirin. He died when he was 74 years old.
Sigmund Freud: Studies on Cocaine
It was in 1884 Sigmund Freud was interested in the new analgesic cocaine. Over the next three years, he published several scientific works in which he wrote about how amazed he was at what cocaine could do. He should prescribe it to his wife and recommend it to his own to friends. Because at the beginning of 1887 scientists met, that cocaine is harmful, was Freud prosecuted for promoting drug use. Until the year In 1900, he reportedly struggled with drug addiction.
Charles Baudelaire: Club des Hashischins
From 1844 to 1848, the poet is said to have visited Club des Hashischins, in which they abused drugs, mainly hashish. Baudelaire was to try hashish twice, but he is said to be repulsive. He was also said to be briefly addicted to I get drunk, but it's addictive managed to overcome and create a description of the effect of drugs on the human body in the work Artificial Paradises.
