Lewis, Marc D.
New York : PublicAffairs, 2012.
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Notes:

• Published in Canada in 2011 by Doubleday Canada –Title page verso.
• A neuroscientist tells the story of his youth spent as a drug addict, while using the specific example of his own story to help explain drug use and addiction in general from a scientific standpoint.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
• The Tabor chronicles. Changing state — Giving up control — Into the fire — Dopamine and desire: a romantic interlude — Life and death in California. Pulling out the stops — Psychedelics, sex, and violence — A psychedelic finale: cops and angels — Heroin, the Heap, and the sleep of the dead — Getting down — Going places. Travel broadens the mind — Consciousness lost and found — The opium fields — In sickness and in health. Night life in Rat Park — Crime and punishment — Healing — Epilogue.

Subjects:

• Lewis, Marc D.
• Lewis, Marc D. — Drug use.
• Drug addicts — Canada — Biography.
• Neuroscientists — Canada — Biography.
• Brain — Effect of drugs on.
• Drug abuse.
• Drug addiction.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.