Jerrold Winter

Our Love Affair with Drugs

The History, the Science, the Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

In Our Love Affair with Drugs, Jerrold Winter provides a nontechnical, accessible account of the effects of psychoactive drugs in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9780190051464
• ISBN-10: 0190051469
• Artikelnr.: 57149695

Autorenporträt

Jerrold Winter, PhD, is professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught on the principles of pharmacology, the elements of addiction, and the drug treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis to graduate and medical students. He has published more than one hundred scientific articles, and he is the author of two books: True Nutrition True Fitness and Optimal Aging.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Pharmacology
The science of drugs
2. Opioids
God's own medicine
3. Marijuana
From Reefer Madness to THC gummy bears
4. Stimulants
From coca to caffeine
5. Depressants: Sedative-Hypnotic-Tranquilizing Drugs
From errant yeast to Halcion
6. Dissociative Anesthetics
Angel Dust to Special K to Ketamine Clinics
7. Hallucinogens
Magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child
8. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA]
a.k.a. Ecstasy
9. Pharmacological Puritanism and The War on Drugs
All the King's horses and all the king's men
Index