Uppers
- Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829–1848)
Coffee - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Cocaine - Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
Benzedrine - W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939” (1958)
Benzedrine - Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)
Coffee and corydrane (amphetamine with aspirin)
Downers
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (1797)
Laudanum - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Aurora Leigh” (1856)
Laudanum - Charles Baudelaire, Artificial Paradises (1860)
Hashish - William S. Burroughs, Junkie (1953)
Heroin - Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries (1978)
Heroin
Alcohol
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vanity Fair essays (1921)
Gin - William Faulkner, Road to Glory (1936)
Whiskey - Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Hot tea and sherry - Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Gimlets and vitamin shots - Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1965)
Double martinis
Psychedelics
- Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception (1954)
Mescaline - Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Peyote and LSD - Timothy Leary, High Priest (1968)
LSD - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
LSD - Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
Peyote
