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What addiction did Coleridge struggle with throughout his life?

  • Opium

  • Alcohol

  • Gambling

  • Tobacco

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge struggled with a lifelong addiction to opium. He was treated for his physical and mental health issues with laudanum, an opium-derived substance, which ultimately fostered his addiction.
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