robbie. >> looking to stay in the house anyway, like you said earlier, with opium, they wanted to be more self-contained and away from everyone. >> okay. okay. you have the folks being self-contained. and you also had the fact that if someone is using laudanum and they're asked why are you using laudanum? what could they say it? it would be a completely plausible explanation why they're using it. >> doctors. a doctor prescribed it. >> exactly. it's for medical use. this is something they're using for medical need. you have women being disproportionately inclined to be using it. so you begin to see with society's values, social ideas, social constructions, this focus on who was using. part of what de quincey's work does is to shock people with the fact that he became dependent. this is something that we have already discussed in this class, the notion -- and this is something that christine referred to -- the idea that the elites know how to drink, for example. that they know how to drink in a manner that's responsible, that other people don't, and that, therefore, they can -- they are allowed to drink m