From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs

196 Pages·1993·6.32 MB·English

by  Winifred Rosen

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I
Need
Everything You
About
to Know
Mind-Altering Drugs
Andrew Weil, .D.
and Winifred Rosen
and Updated
Revised
Houghton Muffin Company
Boston I New York
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Copyright © 1983, 1 993 by Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen
All rights rcservcd
For information about permission to reproduce selections
from this 1)00k, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin
2 1 5 Park Avenue South, New York, New York
10003.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Well, Andrew.
From chocolate to morphine everything you need to
know about
:
mind-altering drugs I Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen.
cm.
ltev. ed. of: Chocolate to morphine. 1983.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-395-66079-3
1. Psychotropic drugs. 1. Winifred, Rosen, date.
II. SYcil,
Andrew. Chocolatc to morphinc. III. Title.
RM315.W44 92-3 1727
1993
613.8— dc2O CIP
Printed in the United States of America
10987654
CRS
The original title of this book was Chocolate to Morphine:
Understanding Mm d-Active Drugs.
Dr KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEK
KØBENHAVN
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Acknowledgments
the original idea for
HONEY WILLIAMS AND BUDD COLBY gave us
this book when they complained that they could not find any-
thing good on the subject to give teen-agers to read.
the early stages of our work, as
Jeff Steingartcn helped us in
and Norman Zinberg.
did Woody Wickham
much indebted to DL Michael Aldrich and the Fitz
We are
Library in San Francisco for assistance in
Hugh Ludlow Memorial
finding illustrations for the text. Jeremy Bigwood also provided
illustrations, as well as good suggestions and needed infusions of
Special thanks go to Zig Schmitt for his company, support,
energy.
and help in finding published source materials.
Leif Zerkin, editor of the Journal of PsychoacLive Drugs, came
with recommendations for additional reading and some good
up
Robbins provided photographs, food, and
cartoons. Ken and Maria
of the University of Arizona gave us
information. Dody Fugate
outstanding photographic service.
the manuscript include Rich-
Friends who helped us complete
David Smith, Sara 1)avidson, Helen
ard Carey, Howard Kotler, I)r.
Mikuriya, Jake Myers, Ethan Nadelmann, Jon-
Shewman, Dr. Tod
Fleishman, Tim Plowman, and Stanley and
athan Meader, Sue
Jenine Moss.
staff of the
Richard Evans Schultes and the
We thank Dr.
for their help with illustrations and
Harvard Botanical Museum
their part
Frankian, and Signe Warner for
Anita McClellan, Karen
in tying together the many pieces of this work.
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Authors' Note
this book have three names: a
MANY DRUGS MENTIONED in
chemical name that describes the molecule, a generic or common
that markets the
name, and a brand name owned by a company
drug. For example, Valium is the brand name of a tranquilizer
diazepam. The chemical name of this same
whose generic name is
amethyl5ephenyh2Ha 1 ,4-benzodi-
drug is 7-chloro- 1,3edihydro- 1
azepin-2-one.
and useful
chemical names are long and cumbersome
Because
have tried to stick to
do not give them. We
only to chemists, we
printed in lowercase letters and fol-
generic names, which arc
relevant, by the most common brand names, en-
lowed, when
Thus: diazepam (Valium).
and capitalized.
closed in parentheses
much better known than the generic
If the brand name is
name, as in the case of Valium, we will use it to refer to the drug
drugs, such as cocaine,
reference. Many "street"
after the first
do not have brand names.
LSD, and marijuana,
selected comments about mind-active drugs and ac-
We have
with them from users and nonusers of all
counts of experiences
of these selections appear in the
Short excerpts from many
ages.
the appendix, begin-
For fuller transcripts, see
margins of the text.
ningonpage 185.
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Preface to the
Second Edition
of this book appeared in 1983, bcfore the
Tnt FTRST EDITION
federal government had declared an all-out war on drugs. Crack
hysteria about illegal
cocaine was as yet unknown, and public
less intense than it is today. We thought our book took
drugs was
approach to the drug problem;
reasonable, middle-of-the-road
a
controversial, but never imagined that some
expected it to be
we
threatened by it that they would try to ban it
people would be so
from schools and libraries.
The present atmosphere is even more charged, making calm
Since this book first appeared, sup-
discussion still less common.
have increased; criminal vio-
plies of drugs, especially cocaine,
drugs and drug prohibition has intcnsified
Iencc associated with
people than ever arc in trouble
and spread; and although more
facilities to treat theme
with drugs, there are fewer
happened has caused us to change the views
Nothing that has
made additions to the book (about
expressed in 1983. We have
we
example) and have rewritten sections to bring
crack and AIDS, for
that education
stand by its basic message:
it up to date, but we
only solution to the drug
truthful information is the
based on
good information can turn
problem. Intelligent action based on
We believe that as the failure of present
the situation around.
and harder to deny, people will recognize
policy becomes harder
hope the
change of thinking and strategy. We
the need for a real
of this book will help catalyze that change.
reappearance
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Contents
v
Acknowledgments
vii
Authors' Note
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
Straight Talk at the Start I
I
2 What Is a Drug? 9
3 Why People Use Drugs 14
Relationships with Drugs 22
4
5 Types 28
of Drugs
36
Stimulants
6
7 Depressants 59
Psychedelics, or Hallucinogens 93
8
9 Marijuana 11.4
Deliriants;
I 0 Solvents and Inhalants;
126
PcP and Ketamine
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Contents
Xii
I I Medical Drugs; Herbal
Remedies; Smart Dmgs
142
12 ProblemswithDrugs
161
I 3 Alternatives
to Taking Drugs
174
I 4 Final Words
179
Appendix: First-Person
Accounts
and Comments
185
Glossary
219
Index
229
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the Start
Straight Talk at
DRUGS ARE HERE TO STAY.
History teaches that it vain to hope that drugs will ever
is
effort to eliminate them from society is
disappear and that any
doomed to failure.
society has attempted to
During most of this century, Western
through negative actions: by various
deal with its drug problems
wars on drug abuse implemented by repressive laws, outrageous
propaganda, and attacks on users, suppliers, and sources of disap-
been consistently lost. More
proved substances. These wars have
people arc taking more drugs now than ever before. Drug use has
and has spread to younger
invaded all classes and ethnic groups
children. Also, more people abuse drugs now than
and younger
directly created ugly and ever-
bcforc, and the drug laws have
ever
enlarging criminal networks that corrupt society and cause far
damage than the substances they distribute.
worse
Thc authors of this book were teen-agers and college students
in the 1960s. They had to confront the explosion of drug use of
that era and find out for themselves the benefits and dangers of
learned about at home or in school. One
substances they never
has since become professional health
us Andrew Weil a
of
medical degree from Harvard and a rich back-
counselor. He has a
cultures in other parts of the
ground of travel among drug-using
Africa to the jungles of South
world, from the deserts of east
his training and his professional and pen
America. He draws on
of the substances described in these
sonal experience with most
recognized expert, he is frequently invited to lecture
pages. As a
students, to testify on
drugs to audiences of doctors as well as
on
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