She and the prince shared an opium habit.

He was much in London, earning a living as a writer, but often desperate for money and plagued by his opium habit.

At the same time he cured himself of an opium habit that had been keeping the pain at bay.

"I don't want to get into the opium habit."

In July 1987 he was 23 years old, home from the army and unemployed, supporting a 50-ruble-a-day opium habit by breaking into apartments here.

It was here that he decided, after speaking with van Helsing, to quit his opium habit.

He looked as if he sold dirty postcards to support an opium habit.

Then there is Lu himself, though his opium habit renders him one of the book's less energetic figures.

He advised another daughter, Princess Christian, to break her laudanum and opium habit.

He was desperate to feed his opium habit, and the means to do so lay back at Ma Thomas's.