Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
By: Carl L. Hart
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power…
Want to Read $ 4.99"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It's impossible to know for certain the heart's inner secrets."-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It's impossible to know for certain the heart's inner secrets."-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
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1. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
By: David Herzberg
3.76
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as … read more
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2. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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3. Righteous Dopefiend
By: Philippe Bourgois , Jeffrey Schonberg
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the cont… read more
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4. The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
By: Randol Contreras
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was dev… read more
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5. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
By: James Fadiman
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use - Presents practices for safe and … read more
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6. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
By: None , Alexander Shulgin
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
phen-ethyl-amine \fen-'eth-al-a-,men\ n. [phenyl fr. F. phene, fr. Gk. phainein, to show (from its … read more
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7. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
By: Rick Strassman
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences. A clinical… read more
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8. True Hallucinations
By: Terence McKenna
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the … read more
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9. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
10. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
11. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
12. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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13. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
By: Carl L. Hart
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
14. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
By: Roy Richard Grinker
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more
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". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
15. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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16. Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth
By: Francoise Bourzat
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“Françoise Bourzat has written an authoritative book on guided psychedelic therapy with important l… read more
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17. Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
By: Tao Lin
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Part memoir, part history, part journalistic expos�, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literatur… read more
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18. I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
By: Rachel Nuwer
4.44
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a … read more
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19. Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
By: Shira Hassan
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilatio… read more
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20. The Nature of Drugs Vol. 1: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact
By: Alexander Shulgin
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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21. Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds
By: Andrew R Gallimore
4.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
You are in possession of an exquisite machine motionlessly buoyant in the softly circulating fluids… read more
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