31. During the same visit, Dixon also orders laudanum , a well-known constipating agent. 32. Ultimately overwork, an addiction to laudanum , alcohol and poor financial management took their toll. 33. After Virginia's death, he is so bereaved he develops an addiction to laudanum . 34. Minna also began to show signs of heart disease, for which she was prescribed laudanum . 35. She was unable to watch his grief and overdosed on laudanum , dying in November 1882. 36. He took a fatal dose of laudanum while suffering from " delirium tremens ". 37. Basinger would have played the hostage, a sheltered woman who is addicted to the narcotic laudanum . 38. But he broke it off in the eleventh hour and tried to kill himself with laudanum instead. 39. Two-time Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson plays her drugged-out victim, forever swilling laudanum . 40. He broke into the house and discovered Davenport unconscious, with a laudanum bottle in his hand.