In Place of the Self
Hawthorn Press (Verlag)
978-1-869890-72-8 (ISBN)
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Why are heroin, alcohol, hashish, ecstacy, LSD and tobacco attractive substances for so many people? Why are unusual, visionary and "high" experiences so important to users? How can we understand such experiences? How can we understand such experiences? This volume comprehensively answers these and other questions about drugs and drug use.
Part 1 Introduction: what are drugs? what is addiction? what is drug addiction? Part 2 Historical outline of drug use: back to the gods; towards the earth; stimulating effects; drugs as medicine. Part 3 The use of drugs in our time. Part 4 LSD: ergot; ergot in history - the Isenheim altar, the discovery of LSD, the psychedelic revolution; the effects of LSD - losing the boundaries, cosmic experience, the distorting mirror, the bad trip, waking dreams, flashback; other psychedelic drugs. Part 5 Marijuana/hashish: marijuana and hashish in history; the effects of marijuana and hashish - the course of marijuana/hashish "high", the consequences of chronic marijuana/hashish use. Part 6 Opiates: the fairy tale about the poppy; history of the opiates - opium, morphine, heroin; the effects of opiates - the effects of opium, the effects of morphine, the effects of heroin; methadone. Part 7 Alcohol: alcohol in history; how is alcohol produced? the effects of alcohol - the use of alcohol by the young. Part 8 Cocaine and amphetamines: cocaine - history, the effects of cocaine; amphetamines (speed) - the history, the effects. Part 9 Ecstasy (XTC): history; the effects - risks. Part 10 Designer drugs. Part 11 Drug use and drug addiction. Appendix: UK and USA statistics.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2001 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Ecology S. |
| Übersetzer | Tony Langham, Plym Peters |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 b&w drawings and photographs |
| Verlagsort | Stroud |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-869890-72-8 / 1869890728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-869890-72-8 / 9781869890728 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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