Our love affair with drugs : the history, the science, the politics / Jerrold Winter, PhD Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences university at Buffalo.
By: Winter, Jerrold [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2020Description: 195 p: 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190051464.Subject(s): Psychotropic Drugs | Central Nervous System Agents | Substance-Related Disorders -- prevention & control | Public Policy | Drug and Narcotic ControlGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RM315 .W57 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016933 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pharmacology : the science of drugs -- Opioids : God's own medicine -- Marijuana : from Reefer madness to THC gummy bears -- Stimulants : from coca to caffeine -- Depressants : sedative-hypnotic-tranquilizing drugs : from errant yeast to Halcion -- Dissociative anesthetics : angel dust to special k to ketamine clinics -- Hallucinogens : magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child -- Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] a.k.a. ecstasy -- Pharmacological puritanism and the war on drugs : all the king's horses and all the king's men.