Summary
"An authoritative, illuminating and deeply humane history of addiction -- by a therapist who has reached the depths of addiction himself. Even in the midst of a period of staggering drug abuse that we can confidently call a crisis, questions about the fundamental nature of addiction, its origins, an... Full description
- Behavior in search of a name
- Foundations: before "addiction"
- Epidemics
- A disease in the will
- The age of intemperance
- Possession
- The first American opioid epidemic
- Junkies
- The roots of modern addiction
- The modern alcoholism movement
- Good drugs and bad drugs
- Addiction on trial
- Rehabilitation
- Zero tolerance
- Understanding addiction.