Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture
| AUTHOR | Sessa, Ben |
| PUBLISHER | Wooden Books (09/15/2023) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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What actually happens to you when you drink a cup of coffee? Is chocolate really an aphrodisiac? How do drugs like alcohol and cannabis work? Did psychedelics play a part in human evolution? In this fascinating pocket book, leading psychedelic researcher Dr. Ben Sessa describes the drugs, legal and illegal, natural and synthesized, from nicotine to endorphins, sugar to antidepressants, that humans all over the world take every day to change their state of mind.
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ISBN-13:
9781952178252
ISBN-10:
1952178258
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
64
Carton Quantity:
120
Product Dimensions:
5.43 x 0.55 x 6.61 inches
Weight:
0.26 pound(s)
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Country of Origin:
CN
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Medical | Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology
Medical | Social Psychology
Medical | Popular Culture
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What actually happens to you when you drink a cup of coffee? Is chocolate really an aphrodisiac? How do drugs like alcohol and cannabis work? Did psychedelics play a part in human evolution? In this fascinating pocket book, leading psychedelic researcher Dr. Ben Sessa describes the drugs, legal and illegal, natural and synthesized, from nicotine to endorphins, sugar to antidepressants, that humans all over the world take every day to change their state of mind.
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Author:
Sessa, Ben
DR. BEN SESSA, MBBS BSc MRCPsych is a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Taunton, Somerset (UK) with the National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. He began publishing in medical journals on the subject of psychedelics as a trainee and since then has spoken nationally and internationally to doctors in a campaign to see these fascinating substances return to the mainstream pharmacopeia where their lives began. In 2008 he became a Research Associate under Prof. David Nutt at Bristol University, where he consulted for the ACMD on MDMA before working on the UK's only human hallucinogen study in modern times - being the first person to be legally administered a classical psychedelic drug in the UK for 33 years.
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