Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

Type

Book

Authors

David T. Courtwright

ISBN 10

0674010035

ISBN 13

9780674010031

Tags

Self-Help, Substance Abuse, World, Social Services & Welfare, History, Georgetown

Description

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines. - from Amzon

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