Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
- ISBN-10
- 1610392337
- ISBN-13
- 9781610392334
- Series
- Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-05
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Author
- Marc Lewis
Description
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.
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- 2012-03-06
- 338 pages
- Paperback
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- 2012-03-06
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Hachette UK
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- 2012-01-25
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Scribe Publications
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- 2011-10-04
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Doubleday Canada
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