# Awsiter — Confessions of an English Opium-Eater character guide

> Awsiter in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0002-preliminary-confessions

## Who they are

An apothecary who supplies the narrator with opium.

## In the story

### [To the Reader](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/chapters/to-the-reader)

Apothecary to Greenwich Hospital, author of 'Essay on the Effects of Opium' (1763), quoted on the dangerous allure of opium.

### [The Pleasures of Opium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/chapters/part-ii-the-pleasures-of-opium)

Mentioned as a surgeon who claimed to be drunk with opium daily, providing a counterpoint to the narrator's own experience.

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