According to Bill Kauffman, Randolph was "a habitual opium user [and] a bachelor who seems to have nurtured a crush on Andrew Jackson."

King was concerned with the growing numbers of white opium users and believed that Canada had to set the precedent on drug use worldwide.

Many in the circles of royalty were regular opium users.

M. H. Abrams argued that opium users during the Romantic era became "inspired to ecstasies" when experiencing opium's effects.

There is a longstanding literary history by and about opium users.

Holmes was an opium user - Wolfe a beer drinker.

By chance he meets a woman, who is an opium user from London.

Thomas De Quincey, in his preface to the Confessions, deemed Milner an 'eloquent and benevolent' opium user.

According to the Victorian Premier's Drug Advisory Council in 1899, there were three main "classes" of opium users.

The second class of opium users included doctors, nurses and other health professionals, who used the drug as a strategy for coping with the stress of their work.