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-->-- "Minnie the Moocher", Cab Calloway

->She loved him though was cokey

-->-- "Minnie the Moocher"

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* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica''.

* The Oscar-winning French film ''Film/{{Indochine}}'': The protagonist is an addict who introduces her younger lover to them (even though he's supposed to be police its traffic). He drags her out of a den at one point.

* ''Film/{{Indochine}}'': Eliane is a hard-driving plantation owner in Vietnam who likes to unwind by going to an opium den and getting high. One time she has to be carried out.

* ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has a Skooma Den. Sweet, sweet Skooma!
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' Dawnguard Expansion has the Redwater Den. Yet another Skooma Den, though this one is pure evil. DO NOT buy the House Skooma. Even better, if you buy it don't drink it. It's drugged in which the hosts take the unconscious victims to a jail cell in the basement to be turned into Vampire Thralls.
* Wizardry 7 has one, and your characters ''get to participate''. If you do, your characters get visited by some kind of SpiritAdvisor who gives you a really powerful item.
* [[{{Wutai}} Kyo]] has one in ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier''. [[spoiler:Black X runs its drug operations out of it.]]
* You visit one in ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''.

* In ''Series/{{Dracula}}'', members of the Order of the Dragon AncientConspiracy go to a 19[[superscript:th]]-century London opium den, where a pair of {{Seers}} sell their services. Whether their liberal use of the product helps them in their [[TrackingSpell scrying]] or just helps them pass the time is left unsaid, but [[spoiler:Dracula gives them a nasty PokeInTheThirdEye for their intrusion either way]].

Historically associated with Chinese culture, but not all are from that area. Limehouse, in LondonTown, was [[http://eastlondonhistory.com/chinatown-in-limehouse/ not actually that bad at all]] (the actual reason for the prevalence of this trope is, to cut a long story short, that in the 1800s the British virtually got everyone in China hooked on opium because [[SpotOfTea the Chinese had a lot of stuff]] the [[UsefulNotes/TeaAndTeaCulture British wanted to buy]], but the British had nearly nothing the Chinese wanted).

* In ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' by Creator/JulesVerne, the detective Fix gets Passepartout drunk and stoned in an opium den in HongKong in order to separate him from Phileas Fogg.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".

* In the series "The Knick" a Chinatown opium den is a favorite haunt of Dr. Thackery.

* Opium dens are depicted in all their squalor in Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters The Fire Rose]]'', which is set in California during the age of trains.

* Appears in at least one of the ''Franchise/FuManchu'' stories as a front for the Devil Doctor's activities.

* The Oscar-winning French film ''Indochine'': The protagonist is an addict who introduces her younger lover to them (even though he's supposed to be police its traffic). He drags her out of a den at one point.

* In the now LostForever Playdom interactive game ''Blackwood and Bell Mysteries'', when the group goes to Hong kong they have to search for clues in one of these.

* PeterDavid's ''Comicbook/FallenAngel'' has an arc where Lee smokes opium in a hookah in Asia Minor's place.

* In the beginning of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' comic, Alan Quatermain is in an opium den.

* The Blue Lotus in the ''{{Tintin}}'' book of the same name. This being a more upmarket, well-painted example, frequented by businessmen and diplomats.

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* Pip sinks into dissolution and decay in ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' and ends up in an opium den, thinking it's a Chinese restaurant. "Would you like some complimentary prawn crack?"
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* In ''{{Dodgeball}}'', the {{mockumentary}} on how to play dodgeball claims that the game was invented in Chinese Opium Dens.

* ''ThoroughlyModernMillie'' has one of these that doubles as a prostitution/white slaving ring.

* In he series "The Knick" a Chinatown opium den is a favorite haunt of Dr. Thackery.

** In "The Knick" a Chinatown opium den is a favorite haunt of Dr. Thackery.

• In "The Knick" a Chinatown opium den is a favorite haunt of Dr. Thackery.

• In "The Knick" a Chinatown opium den is a favorite haunt of Dr. Thackery.