Brain-robbers : how alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have changed human history /
Frankenburg, Frances Rachel,
Brain-robbers : how alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have changed human history / Frances R. Frankenburg. - vi, 349 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alcohol -- Why we need water -- Fermentation -- Distillation -- Alcohol and the Addams Family: the scourge of intemperance -- Patent medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the great American fraud -- Carry nation: hatchetation against saloonacy -- Cocaine -- Sniffing cocaine, heroin, and tobacco -- William Stewart Halsted -- Sigmund Freud and cocaine -- Nicotine -- Tobacco and illness: the discovery -- Women and cigarettes -- Opiates -- Discovery of the opiate receptor -- Pain and anesthesia: the role of cocaine and opiates -- The Gladstones and opium -- Opium smoking, the opium wars, and emigration from China -- The brain - Addiction.
A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances such as 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. -- Provided by publisher.
9781440829314 (alk. paper) 1440829314 (alk. paper)
2013040015
Substance abuse--History.
Compulsive behavior--History.
Brain--Effect of drugs on.
Substance-Related Disorders--history.
Behavior, Addictive--history.
Brain--drug effects.
Brain--Effect of drugs on.
Compulsive behavior.
Substance abuse.
History.
RC564 / .F73 2014
362.29
2014 G-440 WM 11.1
Brain-robbers : how alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have changed human history / Frances R. Frankenburg. - vi, 349 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alcohol -- Why we need water -- Fermentation -- Distillation -- Alcohol and the Addams Family: the scourge of intemperance -- Patent medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the great American fraud -- Carry nation: hatchetation against saloonacy -- Cocaine -- Sniffing cocaine, heroin, and tobacco -- William Stewart Halsted -- Sigmund Freud and cocaine -- Nicotine -- Tobacco and illness: the discovery -- Women and cigarettes -- Opiates -- Discovery of the opiate receptor -- Pain and anesthesia: the role of cocaine and opiates -- The Gladstones and opium -- Opium smoking, the opium wars, and emigration from China -- The brain - Addiction.
A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances such as 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. -- Provided by publisher.
9781440829314 (alk. paper) 1440829314 (alk. paper)
2013040015
Substance abuse--History.
Compulsive behavior--History.
Brain--Effect of drugs on.
Substance-Related Disorders--history.
Behavior, Addictive--history.
Brain--drug effects.
Brain--Effect of drugs on.
Compulsive behavior.
Substance abuse.
History.
RC564 / .F73 2014
362.29
2014 G-440 WM 11.1