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. Presents a historical
review of four plant-derived drugs-alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and
opiates-and their effects throughout human civilization, as well as
a fascinating exploration of the mystery and misery of addiction
Provides comprehensive explanations of medical and psychiatric
effects of these drugs Supplies stories of people who made
discoveries about these drugs or who had their lives altered by
them Describes the discovery of the way in which the brain works
Includes illustrations of brain pathways and of the four plants of
origin for these drugs, and maps showing drug trade triangles
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