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1 online resource (347 pages) |
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About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; 1 CHANGING STATE; 2 GIVING UP CONTROL; 3 INTO THE FIRE; 4 DOPAMINE AND DESIRE: A ROMANTIC INTERLUDE; PART TWO; 5 PULLING OUT THE STOPS; 6 PSYCHEDELICS, SEX, AND VIOLENCE; 7 A PSYCHEDELIC FINALE: COPS AND ANGELS; 8 HEROIN, THE HEAP, AND THE SLEEP OF THE DEAD; 9 GETTING DOWN; PART THREE; 10 TRAVEL BROADENS THE MIND; 11 CONSCIOUSNESS LOST AND FOUND; 12 THE OPIUM FIELDS; PART FOUR; 13 NIGHT LIFE IN RAT PARK; 14 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; 15 HEALING; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ENDNOTES |
| Summary |
A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis was a teenager in boarding school, experimenting with cough syrup and alcohol to assuage his depression. When he moved to Berkeley, California, the pulsing heart of the counter-cultural movement, he began using LSD and heroin. His spiralling journey of addiction eventually led him to Asia, where he sniffed nitrous oxide in the Malay jungle, took speed in Kuala Lumpur, and lost |
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Print version record |
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Lewis, Marc D
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Lewis, Marc D. -- Drug use
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Drug addicts -- Canada -- Biography
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Neuroscientists -- Canada -- Biography
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Brain -- Effect of drugs on
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Drug abuse.
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Drug addiction.
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Substance-Related Disorders
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Brain -- Effect of drugs on.
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Drug abuse.
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Drug addiction.
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Drug addicts.
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Neuroscientists.
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Canada.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781921942402 |
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1921942401 |
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