Drug use for grown-ups: Chasing liberty in the land of fear

Hart, Carl L.

Drug use for grown-ups: Chasing liberty in the land of fear By Carl L. Hart - 1 - Newyork: Penguin Press, c2021. - i-xiii+290P.

Prologue: Time to grow up --
The war on us: how we got in this mess --
Get out of the closet: stop behaving like children --
Beyond the harms of harm reduction --
Drug addiction is not a brain disease --
Amphetamines: empathy, energy, and ecstasy --
Novel psychoactive substances: searching for a pure bliss --
Cannabis: sprouting the seeds of freedom --
Psychedelics: we are one --
Cocaine: everybody loves the sunshine --
Dope science: the truth about opioids --
Epilogue: The journey --
Appendix: Death investigation systems by state.


"From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as part of a responsible and happy life. Dr. Carl Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former Chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects

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Recreational drug use -- United States. Drug abuse -- United States.

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