Name: Forces of Habit

Full name: Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

Author: David T. Courtwright
Year: 2001
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History, Non Fiction, Science

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9780674010031
0674010035
What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.
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