Our love affair with drugs : the history, the science, the politics

Our love affair with drugs : the history, the science, the politics / Jerrold Winter.

Prescription, illicit, and recreational drugs touch all of our lives yet a basic understanding of these chemicals is largely absent among Americans. This book offers a comprehensive account of psychoactive drugs, chemicals which influence our brains in myriad ways.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winter, Jerrold (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Psychotropic drugs.
Substance abuse.
substance abuse.
Psychotropic drugs
Substance abuse
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Table of Contents:
  • Pharmacology : the science of drugs
  • Opioids : God's own medicine
  • Marijuana : from Reefer madness to THC gummy bears
  • Stimulants : from coca to caffeine
  • Depressants : sedative-hypnotic-tranquilizing drugs : from errant yeast to Halcion and its relatives
  • Dissociative anesthetics : angel dust to special k to ketamine clinics
  • Hallucinogens : magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child
  • Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] a.k.a. ecstasy
  • Pharmacological puritanism and the war on drugs : all the king's horses and all the king's men.

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