Presents nineteen essays that explore the history, origins, and use of cocaine since the early sixteenth-century Incas in Peru, and discusses its resurgence in the United States during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the use of crack, and other topics.
Twenty-two articles and essays describe the history of club drugs such as ecstasy, Rohypnol, and GHB and argue opposing points on legal and medical issues related to club drugs.
Presents a collection of essays that examine the drug, opiates, including information on its medical history, cultural impact, and use and abuse in experimentation.
Presents a collection of fifteen essays on the history and controversy over marijuana and addresses issues of legalization, the social impact of its use, European laws on its use, and the cultivation of hemp for other purposes.
Presents a series of twenty-one essays that address the history and development of antidepressants such as Prozac and discusses the controversy over their effectiveness in treating depression.
Presents a series of essays that address the use of hallucinogens such as LSD and other psychedelic agents and discusses their origin, the CIA's experimentation with LSD, the hippie movement of the 1960s, and contemporary views of hallucinogens.
