Possible Clues:

• Drug article by e.g. Geordie writer
• Write article on new Ecstasy drug
• Write article supporting new Ecstasy drug
• One pen thereabouts hiding plant
• Snare catches author, male, producing drug
• Sorrow-drowning drug of the ancients
• Article supporting New English writer that caused sorrow to be forgotten
• One lovelorn writer hits the drink to forget
• Mythical elixir of forgetfulness
• Northeast writer with the drug that helps you forget Homer's Odyssey perhaps