Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Ron Dunselman ,  Tony Langham ,  Plym Peters
Publisher:   Hawthorn Press
Imprint:   Hawthorn Press
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.393kg
ISBN:  

9781903458266

ISBN 10:   1903458269
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   18 December 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

"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."

Reviews

Opens a perspective on another way of thinking. It provides an insight below the surface into the reasons for using drugs. --Kees Goos, Drugs and Tobacco European Coordinator, WHO The fascinating information, valuable source material and vivid first-hand experiences help gain useful insight into 'social' drugs--of interest to any homeopath. --Julian Carlyon, author of Understanding Homeopathy, Homeopathic Understanding, in The Homeopath

The fascinating information, valuable source material and vivid first-hand experiences help gain useful insight into 'social' drugs--of interest to any homeopath. --Julian Carlyon, author of Understanding Homeopathy, Homeopathic Understanding, in The Homeopath Opens a perspective on another way of thinking. It provides an insight below the surface into the reasons for using drugs. --Kees Goos, Drugs and Tobacco European Co-ordinator, WHO

Author Information

Ron Dunselman PhD helped pioneer ARTA, a leading Dutch therapeutic community offering an holistic, anthroposophical approach to helping people overcome a drug dependency. He wrote this book in collaboration with doctors,therapists and former addicts.

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