From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs

From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs

From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs

From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs

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Overview

From Chocolate to Morphine is the definitive guide to drugs and drug use from one of America’s most respected and best-known doctors. This enormously popular book — the best and most authoritative resource for unbiased information about how drugs affect the mind and the body — covers a wide range of available substances, from coffee to marijuana, antihistamines to psychedelics, steroids to smart drugs, and discusses likely effects, precautions, and alternatives. Now expanded and updated to cover such drugs as oxycontin, Ecstasy, Prozac, and ephedra and to address numerous ongoing issues, including the United States’ war on drugs, marijuana for therapeutic use, the overuse of drugs for children diagnosed with ADHD, and more, From Chocolate to Morphine is an invaluable resource.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618483792
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 12/09/2004
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 513,688
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author
Winifred Rosen is a freelance writer and the author of numerous books for young people.


Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned an international reputation as an expert on alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He is the associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine and the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Hometown:

Tucson, Arizona

Date of Birth:

June 8, 1942

Place of Birth:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.A. in Biology, Harvard University, 1964; M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1968
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