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An excavation of the drug myth

Nature volume 409, page 767 (2001)Cite this article

Intoxicating Minds

  • Ciaran Regan
Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2001. 164 pp. £14.99

The book covers essentially all of the drugs that are used recreationally — both the legal ones (caffeine, nicotine and alcohol) and the illegal ones (amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine, cannabis, heroin and the hallucinogens). For all of these he manages to convey up-to-date information about how they work, at the same time giving the reader basic information about the brain and neurotransmitter mechanisms involved. The book gives a very good basic overview of brain function, including a digression into the mechanisms involved in memory.

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