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"A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances--alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates--have played a significant role throughout human history, and explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain and cause addiction"--Provided by publisher.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alcohol
2. Why We Need Water
3. Fermentation
4. Distillation
5. Alcohol and the Adams Family: The Scourge of Intemperance
6. Patent Medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the Great American Fraud
7. Carry Nation: Hatchetation against Saloonacy
8. Cocaine
9. Sniffing Cocaine, Heroin, and Tobacco
10. William Stewart Halsted
11. Sigmund Freud and Cocaine
12. Nicotine
13. Tobacco and Illness: The Discovery
14. Women and Cigarettes
15. Opiates
16. Discovery of the Opiate Receptor
17. Pain and Anesthesia: The Role of Cocaine and Opiates
18. The Gladstones and Opium
19. Opium Smoking, the Opium Wars, and Emigration from China
20. The Brain
21. Addiction
Glossary
Index
About the author
Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. She is author of several books, including
Brain Robbers: How Alcohol, Cocaine, Nicotine, and Opiates Have Changed Human History.
