Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, is professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and chief of inpatient psychiatry at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA.

Brain-Robbers is an engaging overview of how individuals, governments, and societies have interacted with four major drugs of use, abuse, and trade over the course of human history. This . . . makes the book's scope unique. . . . comprehensive and engaging. The inclusion of numerous historical anecdotes and asides makes a potentially dry history relevant to a modern worldview. The writing is nontechnical . . . Overall, this is a useful introduction to the human history of drug use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Alcohol2. Why We Need Water3. Fermentation4. Distillation5. Alcohol and the Adams Family: The Scourge of Intemperance6. Patent Medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the Great American Fraud7. Carry Nation: Hatchetation against Saloonacy8. Cocaine9. Sniffing Cocaine, Heroin, and Tobacco10. William Stewart Halsted11. Sigmund Freud and Cocaine12. Nicotine13. Tobacco and Illness: The Discovery14. Women and Cigarettes15. Opiates16. Discovery of the Opiate Receptor17. Pain and Anesthesia: The Role of Cocaine and Opiates18. The Gladstones and Opium19. Opium Smoking, the Opium Wars, and Emigration from China20. The Brain21. AddictionGlossaryIndex

Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, is professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and chief of inpatient psychiatry at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA.

Brain-Robbers is an engaging overview of how individuals, governments, and societies have interacted with four major drugs of use, abuse, and trade over the course of human history. This . . . makes the book's scope unique. . . . comprehensive and engaging. The inclusion of numerous historical anecdotes and asides makes a potentially dry history relevant to a modern worldview. The writing is nontechnical . . . Overall, this is a useful introduction to the human history of drug use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Alcohol2. Why We Need Water3. Fermentation4. Distillation5. Alcohol and the Adams Family: The Scourge of Intemperance6. Patent Medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the Great American Fraud7. Carry Nation: Hatchetation against Saloonacy8. Cocaine9. Sniffing Cocaine, Heroin, and Tobacco10. William Stewart Halsted11. Sigmund Freud and Cocaine12. Nicotine13. Tobacco and Illness: The Discovery14. Women and Cigarettes15. Opiates16. Discovery of the Opiate Receptor17. Pain and Anesthesia: The Role of Cocaine and Opiates18. The Gladstones and Opium19. Opium Smoking, the Opium Wars, and Emigration from China20. The Brain21. AddictionGlossaryIndex

Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, is professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and chief of inpatient psychiatry at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA.

Brain-Robbers is an engaging overview of how individuals, governments, and societies have interacted with four major drugs of use, abuse, and trade over the course of human history. This . . . makes the book's scope unique. . . . comprehensive and engaging. The inclusion of numerous historical anecdotes and asides makes a potentially dry history relevant to a modern worldview. The writing is nontechnical . . . Overall, this is a useful introduction to the human history of drug use. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Alcohol2. Why We Need Water3. Fermentation4. Distillation5. Alcohol and the Adams Family: The Scourge of Intemperance6. Patent Medicines, Lydia Pinkham, and the Great American Fraud7. Carry Nation: Hatchetation against Saloonacy8. Cocaine9. Sniffing Cocaine, Heroin, and Tobacco10. William Stewart Halsted11. Sigmund Freud and Cocaine12. Nicotine13. Tobacco and Illness: The Discovery14. Women and Cigarettes15. Opiates16. Discovery of the Opiate Receptor17. Pain and Anesthesia: The Role of Cocaine and Opiates18. The Gladstones and Opium19. Opium Smoking, the Opium Wars, and Emigration from China20. The Brain21. AddictionGlossaryIndex