Brain-robbers : how alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have changed human history / Frances R. Frankenburg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]Description: vi, 349 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781440829314 (alk. paper)
  • 1440829314 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.29 23
LOC classification:
  • RC564 .F73 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2014 G-440
  • WM 11.1
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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