Jerrold Winter, PhD, is professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught on the principles of pharmacology, the elements of addiction, and the drug treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis to graduate and medical students. He has published more than one hundred scientific articles, and he is the author of two books: True Nutrition True Fitness and Optimal Aging.

I am amazed at how much Professor Winter has packed into these pages! One couldn't ask for a more concise, efficient transfer of vital information, a treasure trove of details about how drugs work in the brain, their place in history and in modern society. A pleasure to read.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1. Pharmacology The science of drugs 2. Opioids God's own medicine 3. Marijuana From Reefer Madness to THC gummy bears4. StimulantsFrom coca to caffeine5. Depressants: Sedative-Hypnotic-Tranquilizing Drugs From errant yeast to Halcion 6. Dissociative AnestheticsAngel Dust to Special K to Ketamine Clinics7. HallucinogensMagic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child8. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] a.k.a. Ecstasy9. Pharmacological Puritanism and The War on Drugs All the King's horses and all the king's men Index

Jerrold Winter, PhD, is professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught on the principles of pharmacology, the elements of addiction, and the drug treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis to graduate and medical students. He has published more than one hundred scientific articles, and he is the author of two books: True Nutrition True Fitness and Optimal Aging.

I am amazed at how much Professor Winter has packed into these pages! One couldn't ask for a more concise, efficient transfer of vital information, a treasure trove of details about how drugs work in the brain, their place in history and in modern society. A pleasure to read.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1. Pharmacology The science of drugs 2. Opioids God's own medicine 3. Marijuana From Reefer Madness to THC gummy bears4. StimulantsFrom coca to caffeine5. Depressants: Sedative-Hypnotic-Tranquilizing Drugs From errant yeast to Halcion 6. Dissociative AnestheticsAngel Dust to Special K to Ketamine Clinics7. HallucinogensMagic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child8. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] a.k.a. Ecstasy9. Pharmacological Puritanism and The War on Drugs All the King's horses and all the king's men Index

Jerrold Winter, PhD, is professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught on the principles of pharmacology, the elements of addiction, and the drug treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis to graduate and medical students. He has published more than one hundred scientific articles, and he is the author of two books: True Nutrition True Fitness and Optimal Aging.

I am amazed at how much Professor Winter has packed into these pages! One couldn't ask for a more concise, efficient transfer of vital information, a treasure trove of details about how drugs work in the brain, their place in history and in modern society. A pleasure to read.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1. Pharmacology The science of drugs 2. Opioids God's own medicine 3. Marijuana From Reefer Madness to THC gummy bears4. StimulantsFrom coca to caffeine5. Depressants: Sedative-Hypnotic-Tranquilizing Drugs From errant yeast to Halcion 6. Dissociative AnestheticsAngel Dust to Special K to Ketamine Clinics7. HallucinogensMagic mushrooms, ayahuasca, mescal buttons, and Dr. Hofmann's problem child8. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA] a.k.a. Ecstasy9. Pharmacological Puritanism and The War on Drugs All the King's horses and all the king's men Index