From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs PDF
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- , n K 1 PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor 4 - ' Books by Andrew Weil, M.D. The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at DTUgS and the Higher Consciousness The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: A Quest for Unity in Consciousnes1c Health and Healing: tin ders tan ding Con yen don al and Alternative Medicine Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for We/mess and Self-Care Books by Winifred Rosen Marvin's Manhole Ralph Proves the Pudding Hiram Makes Friends Henrietta, The Wild Woman of Borneo Cruisin for a Brui sin Henfletta and the Day of the Iguana Dragons Hate to Be Discreet Henrietta and the Gong from Hong Kong Three Romances PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor I Need Everything You About to Know Mind-Altering Drugs Andrew Weil, .D. and Winifred Rosen and Updated Revised Houghton Muffin Company Boston I New York PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Copyright © 1983, 1 993 by Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen All rights rcservcd For information about permission to reproduce selections from this 1)00k, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin 2 1 5 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Well, Andrew. From chocolate to morphine everything you need to know about : mind-altering drugs I Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen. cm. ltev. ed. of: Chocolate to morphine. 1983. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-395-66079-3 1. Psychotropic drugs. 1. Winifred, Rosen, date. II. SYcil, Andrew. Chocolatc to morphinc. III. Title. RM315.W44 92-3 1727 1993 613.8— dc2O CIP Printed in the United States of America 10987654 CRS The original title of this book was Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mm d-Active Drugs. Dr KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEK KØBENHAVN PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Acknowledgments the original idea for HONEY WILLIAMS AND BUDD COLBY gave us this book when they complained that they could not find any- thing good on the subject to give teen-agers to read. the early stages of our work, as Jeff Steingartcn helped us in and Norman Zinberg. did Woody Wickham much indebted to DL Michael Aldrich and the Fitz We are Library in San Francisco for assistance in Hugh Ludlow Memorial finding illustrations for the text. Jeremy Bigwood also provided illustrations, as well as good suggestions and needed infusions of Special thanks go to Zig Schmitt for his company, support, energy. and help in finding published source materials. Leif Zerkin, editor of the Journal of PsychoacLive Drugs, came with recommendations for additional reading and some good up Robbins provided photographs, food, and cartoons. Ken and Maria of the University of Arizona gave us information. Dody Fugate outstanding photographic service. the manuscript include Rich- Friends who helped us complete David Smith, Sara 1)avidson, Helen ard Carey, Howard Kotler, I)r. Mikuriya, Jake Myers, Ethan Nadelmann, Jon- Shewman, Dr. Tod Fleishman, Tim Plowman, and Stanley and athan Meader, Sue Jenine Moss. staff of the Richard Evans Schultes and the We thank Dr. for their help with illustrations and Harvard Botanical Museum their part Frankian, and Signe Warner for Anita McClellan, Karen in tying together the many pieces of this work. PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Authors' Note this book have three names: a MANY DRUGS MENTIONED in chemical name that describes the molecule, a generic or common that markets the name, and a brand name owned by a company drug. For example, Valium is the brand name of a tranquilizer diazepam. The chemical name of this same whose generic name is amethyl5ephenyh2Ha 1 ,4-benzodi- drug is 7-chloro- 1,3edihydro- 1 azepin-2-one. and useful chemical names are long and cumbersome Because have tried to stick to do not give them. We only to chemists, we printed in lowercase letters and fol- generic names, which arc relevant, by the most common brand names, en- lowed, when Thus: diazepam (Valium). and capitalized. closed in parentheses much better known than the generic If the brand name is name, as in the case of Valium, we will use it to refer to the drug drugs, such as cocaine, reference. Many "street" after the first do not have brand names. LSD, and marijuana, selected comments about mind-active drugs and ac- We have with them from users and nonusers of all counts of experiences of these selections appear in the Short excerpts from many ages. the appendix, begin- For fuller transcripts, see margins of the text. ningonpage 185. PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Preface to the Second Edition of this book appeared in 1983, bcfore the Tnt FTRST EDITION federal government had declared an all-out war on drugs. Crack hysteria about illegal cocaine was as yet unknown, and public less intense than it is today. We thought our book took drugs was approach to the drug problem; reasonable, middle-of-the-road a controversial, but never imagined that some expected it to be we threatened by it that they would try to ban it people would be so from schools and libraries. The present atmosphere is even more charged, making calm Since this book first appeared, sup- discussion still less common. have increased; criminal vio- plies of drugs, especially cocaine, drugs and drug prohibition has intcnsified Iencc associated with people than ever arc in trouble and spread; and although more facilities to treat theme with drugs, there are fewer happened has caused us to change the views Nothing that has made additions to the book (about expressed in 1983. We have we example) and have rewritten sections to bring crack and AIDS, for that education stand by its basic message: it up to date, but we only solution to the drug truthful information is the based on good information can turn problem. Intelligent action based on We believe that as the failure of present the situation around. and harder to deny, people will recognize policy becomes harder hope the change of thinking and strategy. We the need for a real of this book will help catalyze that change. reappearance PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Contents v Acknowledgments vii Authors' Note ix Preface to the Second Edition Straight Talk at the Start I I 2 What Is a Drug? 9 3 Why People Use Drugs 14 Relationships with Drugs 22 4 5 Types 28 of Drugs 36 Stimulants 6 7 Depressants 59 Psychedelics, or Hallucinogens 93 8 9 Marijuana 11.4 Deliriants; I 0 Solvents and Inhalants; 126 PcP and Ketamine PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor Contents Xii I I Medical Drugs; Herbal Remedies; Smart Dmgs 142 12 ProblemswithDrugs 161 I 3 Alternatives to Taking Drugs 174 I 4 Final Words 179 Appendix: First-Person Accounts and Comments 185 Glossary 219 Index 229 PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor the Start Straight Talk at DRUGS ARE HERE TO STAY. History teaches that it vain to hope that drugs will ever is effort to eliminate them from society is disappear and that any doomed to failure. society has attempted to During most of this century, Western through negative actions: by various deal with its drug problems wars on drug abuse implemented by repressive laws, outrageous propaganda, and attacks on users, suppliers, and sources of disap- been consistently lost. More proved substances. These wars have people arc taking more drugs now than ever before. Drug use has and has spread to younger invaded all classes and ethnic groups children. Also, more people abuse drugs now than and younger directly created ugly and ever- bcforc, and the drug laws have ever enlarging criminal networks that corrupt society and cause far damage than the substances they distribute. worse Thc authors of this book were teen-agers and college students in the 1960s. They had to confront the explosion of drug use of that era and find out for themselves the benefits and dangers of learned about at home or in school. One substances they never has since become professional health us Andrew Weil a of medical degree from Harvard and a rich back- counselor. He has a cultures in other parts of the ground of travel among drug-using Africa to the jungles of South world, from the deserts of east his training and his professional and pen America. He draws on of the substances described in these sonal experience with most recognized expert, he is frequently invited to lecture pages. As a students, to testify on drugs to audiences of doctors as well as on PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor
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