P. E. Moskowitz

Breaking Awake (MP3-Download)

A Reporter's Search for a New Life, and a New World, Through Drugs Ungekürzte Lesung. 1 Min.

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day? What is wrong with us? In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers. For P.E. Moskowitz it was a shattering near-death experience, followed by a nervous breakdown. As they willed themselves back to life using a variety of drugs, both prescription and illegal, they started to wonder: why do we need drugs to quell the pain of modern life? In Breaking Awake, Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through the twenty-first century's mental health crisis and the drugs we take – from fentanyl to SSRIs, from ketamine to LSD and beyond – to cope with the gnawing bleakness of our present moment. We meet a team handing out free heroin on the streets of Vancouver and a young mother in Chicago who has been on SSRIs since childhood, ravers in Brooklyn taking drugs to push the limits of human consciousness and ordinary people leading ordinary lives on a constant cocktail of medication. Moskowitz asks: do drugs spark liberation or simply numb our modern malaise? Breaking Awake explores the global mental health and drug use crises whilst searching for answers to find a path to healing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526658050
• Artikelnr.: 73572235

Autorenporträt

P.E. Moskowitz is a writer born and raised in New York City. Their writing has appeared in New York magazine, GQ, The Nation, and many other places. They run a popular Substack newsletter about psychology, psychiatry and culture called Mental Hellth. When they’re not writing, they’re probably playing tennis, chilling with friends across the city, or watching the Mets lose again. For more information, visit their website at Moskowitz.xyz.