Intoxicating Minds
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780231120166
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; Neurophysiology; Neuropsychopharmacology; Psychology; Medical; Neuropsychology; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Psychopathology - Addiction; Medical / Neuroscience; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Psychopharmacology
First sentence: This is a book about drugs and how they affect our minds.
Description: "Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect a person's problem-solving capacity?

Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and includes lessons for the future." "Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances."--BOOK JACKET.