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Blue dreams the science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds

Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Slater, Lauren (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Psychotropic drugs > History. Psychopharmacology. Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience. Substance abuse > Treatment.
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Summary:	Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.
Physical Description:	xv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-387) and index.
ISBN:	9780316370646 0316370649
Author Notes:	Lauren Slater is the author of Welcome to My Country, Prozac Diary, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir , and Opening Skinner's Box , among other books. She has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. Opening Skinner's Box was nominated for best science writing by the Los Angeles Times , and her work has been reprinted numerous times in The Best American Essays . She lives on a farm in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.