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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Full title: | Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs |
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ISBN: | 9781610392334 |
ISBN 10: | 1610392337 |
Authors: | Lewis PhD, Marc |
Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
Edition: | Illustrated |
Num. pages: | 336 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
Marc Lewis’s relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin; he sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia; and frequented Calcutta’s opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of desperation, deception, and crime.
But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered to become a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind.