TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frankenburg,Frances Rachel
TI  - Brain-robbers: how alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have changed human history 
SN  - 9781440829314 (alk. paper)
AV  - RC564 .F73 2014
U1  - 362.29 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
KW  - Substance abuse
KW  - History
KW  - Compulsive behavior
KW  - Brain
KW  - Effect of drugs on
KW  - Substance-Related Disorders
KW  - history
KW  - Behavior, Addictive
KW  - drug effects
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -