Memoirs of an addicted brain : a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs / Marc Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Marc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug addiction--Physiological aspects.

Drug addiction.

Drug addicts--Biography.

Drug addicts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2012, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered and became a developmental psychologist and resea

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""Introduction 1""; ""PART ONE: THE TABOR CHRONICLES""; ""Chapter 1. Changing state 7""; ""2. Giving up control 27""; ""3. Into the fire 43""; ""4. Dopamine and desire: A romantic interlude 59""; ""PART TWO: LIFE AND DEATH IN CALIFORNIA""; ""Chapter 5. Pulling out the stops 71""; ""6. Psychedelics, sex, and violence 93""; ""7. A psychedelic finale: Cops and angels 115""; ""8. Heroin, the heap, and the sleep of the dead 127""; ""9. Getting down 146""; ""PART THREE: GOING PLACES""; ""Chapter 10. Travel broadens the mind 169""; ""11. Consciousness lost and found 193""

""12. The opium fields 213""""PART FOUR: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH""; ""Chapter 13. Night life in rat park 239""; ""14. Crime and punishment 255""; ""15. Healing 290""; ""Epilogue 302""; ""Acknowledgments 307""; ""Endnotes 309""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-58810-1

9786613617934

1-61039-148-9

OCLC:

779828899