Forces of Habit

Forces of Habit
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Download or read book Forces of Habit written by David T. Courtwright and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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