Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture by Sessa, Ben (9781952178252)

Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture

by Sessa, Ben

Paperback - English

What actually happens to you when you drink a cup of coffee?Is chocolate really an aphrodisiac? How do drugs like alcohol and cannabis work? Did psychedelics play a part in human evolution? In this fascinating little book, leading psychopharmacologist Dr. Ben Sessa describes the drugs, legal and illegal, natural and synthesised, from nicotine to endorphins, sugar to antidepressants, that humans all over the world take every day to change their state of mind.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1952178258

EAN

9781952178252

Publisher

WOODEN BOOKS

Publication Date

15 Sep 2023

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.12

Dimensions (cm)

16.8 x 13.8 x 1.4

About Author

DR. BEN SESSA, MBBS BSc MRCPsych is a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Taunton, Somerset (UK) with the National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. He began publishing in medical journals on the subject of psychedelics as a trainee and since then has spoken nationally and internationally to doctors in a campaign to see these fascinating substances return to the mainstream pharmacopeia where their lives began. In 2008 he became a Research Associate under Prof. David Nutt at Bristol University, where he consulted for the ACMD on MDMA before working on the UK's