Frances R. Frankenburg Md

Brain-Robbers (eBook, ePUB)

How Alcohol, Cocaine, Nicotine, and Opiates Have Changed Human History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have spurred some of the greatest human pleasure and pain across time. Providing information that ranges as widely as from ancient Egypt to modern times, this book comprehensively addresses the good, the bad, and the very ugliest aspects of these substances, examining their history, their effects on the brain and body, and on civilization itself. Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, employs accessible, everyday language to explain the neurology of addiction and describe how these "brain-robbing" substances work to hijack the brain's pleasure systems to create powerful addictions. The author also provides perspective into the intertwined, inescapable, and often uneasy relationship between these substances and human culture, economics, and politics-for example, how individuals become physically or psychologically addicted to alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates, while governments become financially "addicted" to the revenue, such as taxes, that can be collected from the sale and use of these substances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216055723
• Artikelnr.: 68332979

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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