By Eric Burns

Eric Burns, who chronicled the social heritage of alcohol in "The Spirits of the USA" turns to tobacco in "The Smoke of the Gods". starting from precedent days to the current day, "The Smoke of the Gods" is a full of life historical past of tobacco, in particular within the usa. even though tobacco use is arguable within the U.S. this present day, Burns reminds us that this used to be no longer continually the case. for hundreds of years tobacco was once normally inspiration to have medicinal or even non secular price. many of the signers of the assertion of Independence have been tobacco clients or growers, or either. in accordance with Burns, tobacco replaced the very process U.S. background, simply because its discovery brought on the British to aid Jamestown, its suffering New international colony. An interesting and informative examine a subject matter that makes day-by-day information headlines, "The Smoke of the Gods" is a historical past that's, good, particularly addictive.

By Icon Health Publications

This sourcebook has been created for sufferers who've determined to make schooling and Internet-based examine an essential component of the remedy procedure. even though it supplies info priceless to medical professionals, caregivers and different future health pros, it additionally tells sufferers the place and the way to appear for info masking nearly all subject matters on the topic of heroin dependence, from the necessities to the main complex components of study. The name of this e-book contains the note legitimate. This displays the truth that the sourcebook attracts from public, educational, govt, and peer-reviewed learn. chosen readings from a number of enterprises are reproduced to offer you many of the most modern authentic details on hand up to now on heroin dependence. Following an introductory bankruptcy, the sourcebook is equipped into 3 elements. half I: THE necessities; bankruptcy 1. The necessities on Heroin Dependence: directions; bankruptcy 2. looking information; bankruptcy three. medical Trials and Heroin Dependence; half II: extra assets AND complicated fabric; bankruptcy four. experiences on Heroin Dependence; bankruptcy five. Books on Heroin Dependence; bankruptcy 6. Multimedia on Heroin Dependence; bankruptcy 7. health care professional instructions and Databases; half III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. learning Your medicines; Appendix B. getting to know substitute medication; Appendix C. learning food; Appendix D. discovering clinical Libraries; Appendix E. ideas of Drug habit remedy; on-line GLOSSARIES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE thesaurus; INDEX. similar subject matters contain: heroin, heroin abuse, heroin dependancy, heroin overdose.

By Stephen Wolinsky

Stephen Wolinsky brings us complete circle in figuring out the truth of our internal baby. instead of being regularly "precious", Dr. Wolinsky indicates us the dysfunctional shadow part of our internal baby and places us in contact with these frozen, inner-child stories or trance states that maintain developing difficulties through filtering fact via outdated, constrained, and distorted lenses. the next move is to, ultimately, personal and recognize this darkish facet and step out of our inner-child trance into the current time and uninterrupted information.

By CJ Lyons

A gripping behind-the-scenes drama of 4 ladies who face existence and loss of life on a daily basis On her first day at Pittsburgh's Angels of Mercy scientific middle, L.A.-transplant Lydia Fiore, the recent ER attending surgeon, loses a sufferer: the manager of Surgery's son. Now, to save lots of her profession, Lydia needs to observe the reality at the back of her patient's demise, while it leads her into unfamiliar-and risky-territory. no less than she's no longer by myself. there is med scholar Amanda, a candy Southern belle with difficulties of her personal; Gina, a resident with a chip on her shoulder; and Nora, the no-nonsense cost nurse with a funky head yet a fiery mood. let alone the paramedic who'd prefer to try his bedside demeanour on Lydia.

By Thomas Dormandy

Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed participants, households, groups, or even entire countries. And but, for many of its lengthy background, opium has additionally been humanity's most popular technique of assuaging actual and psychological ache. This outstanding booklet encompasses the total heritage of the world's such a lot attention-grabbing drug, from the 1st facts of poppy cultivation through stone-age guy to the present-day opium alternate in Afghanistan. Dr. Thomas Dormandy tells the tale with verve and perception, uncovering the unusual energy of opiates to inspire significant conflicts but additionally motivate nice artwork and scientific breakthroughs, to set off the increase of worldwide legal networks but additionally revolutionize attitudes towards well-being.

Opium: Reality's darkish Dream traverses the globe and the centuries, exploring opium's function in colonialism, the chinese language Opium Wars, laudanum-inspired elegant Romantic poetry, American "Yellow Peril" fears, the increase of the Mafia and the black marketplace, Nineteen Sixties counterculture, and extra. Dr. Dormandy additionally recounts unique or unhappy tales of person habit. through the booklet the writer emphasizes opium's complicated, useful dating with advancements in drugs, well-being, and disorder, highlighting the complicated twin nature of the drug as either the reason and aid of serious affliction in generally diversified civilizations.

By Elizabeth Wurtzel

By Karen R. Koenig

By Rod Colvin MS

By Murray Carpenter

“You’ll by no means imagine an identical approach approximately your morning cup of coffee.”—Mark McClusky, editor in leader of Wired.com and writer of Faster, larger, Stronger
 
Journalist Murray wood worker has been lower than the impression of a drug for almost 3 a long time. And he’s in reliable corporation, simply because likelihood is you’re hooked, too. people have used caffeine for hundreds of thousands of years. A sour white powder in its so much crucial shape, a tablespoon of it is going to kill even the main habituated person. This addictive, mostly unregulated substance is everywhere—in areas you’d anticipate (like espresso and chocolate) and areas you wouldn’t (like chewing gum and fruit juice), and wood worker unearths its effect on infantrymen, athletes, or even youngsters. it could make you superior, speedier, and extra alert, yet it’s now not excellent, and its position in overall healthiness issues like weight problems and anxiousness will shock you.

Making stops on the espresso farms of important Guatemala, an artificial caffeine manufacturing unit in China, and an power shot bottler in New Jersey, between a variety of different locales worldwide, Caffeinated exposes the high-stakes yet murky global of caffeine, drawing on state-of-the-art technological know-how and larger-than-life characters to provide an extraordinary knowing of America’s favourite drug.

By Melody Beattie