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Bastante profundo e indicado apenas para quem tem interesse em neurofarmacologia.
Quem está apenas procurando um livro com histórias e curiosidades sobre drogas deve estar ciente de que vai encontrar também longos trechos com informações técnicas.
Quem está apenas procurando um livro com histórias e curiosidades sobre drogas deve estar ciente de que vai encontrar também longos trechos com informações técnicas.
Nautin. Paikoin vain liian kemiallinen omalle tietopohjalleni.
dark
informative
medium-paced
Great narrator. Fascinating listening, even if I didn't know exactly what was going on molecularly. All about psuchotropic drugs, how they were discovered, modified, researched, and applied to humans. Very comprehensive background for the average reader, but this is not a bad thing.
So interesting! I listened to this as an audiobook, so the technical portions were a bit boring and confusing, but it doesn't stop me from giving it 5 stars!
Drugs are a weird subject by default. You know they exist; you may know some of them and some of their effects. But how many of us know their history? What about how they work and how much science knows about them?
And this is where this book shines. Covering many different substances, the author goes in great detail into the fascinating stories about drugs and their discoveries, the chemical features that make them relevant and the ways they interact with the brain.
After reading it, and notwithstanding the inherent complexity of the chemistry involved, you’ll have a much broader understanding on this controversial but unavoidable subject. If the use of drugs is rampant in our contemporary world, knowing about them will at least give you a saner perspective and a much more informed position about the whens and hows they came to be what they are.
Totally unlike any other book on drugs that I've read or partially read.
Highly recommended to those interested in a neuropharmacologist and drug expert's take on drug culture both institutional and not, medical and recreational. Worth noting that it is also quite thorough as a historical account.
Heavy on info, but wouldn't say inaccessible. I only have one neuroscience course from undergrad under my belt and I didn't struggle to understand the more specialized/less strictly historical or cultural stuff discussed here.
Highly recommended to those interested in a neuropharmacologist and drug expert's take on drug culture both institutional and not, medical and recreational. Worth noting that it is also quite thorough as a historical account.
Heavy on info, but wouldn't say inaccessible. I only have one neuroscience course from undergrad under my belt and I didn't struggle to understand the more specialized/less strictly historical or cultural stuff discussed here.
Omfg, thank God I've finally finished this damn book I feel like I've been reading it forever. I listened to it on Audio and it took me a long time because I had to listen to a chapter, then take a break and listen to something else, and just come back to it between other audio books because it was so damn dense. The title says "science and culture behind psychotropic drugs " but this book is much heavier on the science aspect than the culture aspect. There was a ton of very intense chemistry and pharmacology that was hard to follow. I am very interested inot pharmacology and still found it hard to stay engaged at times. But it was very interesting, especially the bits where it actually did focus on the social and culture aspects surrounding drugs and their use throughout history. But this is a very, very dry book, with very little literary flourish, so I don't recommend this unless your looking for scientific information on the way drugs work. There is some excellent information here but I wish it had been presented in a more fun, accessible way.
This book did have a lot of useful information, but it wasn't written very well. It switches from the author giving his conspiracy theories behind where different drugs come from to intensive explanations of how various psychotropic drugs work. Unfortunately those explanations aren't frequently easily accessible and require much more than an introductory knowledge of biology and chemistry to understand. I found myself having to go back to college textbooks and having to do a lot of outside reading to fully understand the book.
It also doesn't really address the culture behind psychotropic drugs. I hate it when books like this don't explain what they say they're going to. And I completely lose respect for an author who cites notorious conspiracy sites as reliable sources for historic information.
It also doesn't really address the culture behind psychotropic drugs. I hate it when books like this don't explain what they say they're going to. And I completely lose respect for an author who cites notorious conspiracy sites as reliable sources for historic information.
We are living in an awesome time of scientific discovery. And the researchers and journalists that are popularizing the findings of science are also achieving something of a golden moment. I think it's safe to say, popular science writing has never been better. Particularly in the domain of neuroscience and related fields.
Drugged is as good of an example of contemporary science writing as I can cite. Before I listened to it (it's available on audable.com) I would have thought no one could possibly make the field of psychopharmacology get up and dance. But that is exactly what the author; Richard J. Miller did, and how!
As I mentioned, I listened to this book, and frankly, I'm quite certain I would not have enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed the listen (certainly not always the case, but this time I have to say so). The reader gave a fantastic performance. He has this pompous as hell posh British accent that lends itself perfectly to the task of bringing to life, this rich text, part history, and part chemistry lesson, with the intermittent recitation of some Victorian era letters of correspondence. Think Mr. French meets Gore Vidal......perfect!
The book begins with hallucinogens (aka entheogens) starting with the Soma of mythological lore and winding up with LSD and the1960's new age, hippy culture that accompanied its emergence into popular culture, replete with all the cool chemistry clearly explained. What a treat. The book proceeds to systematically cover each of the broad category of psychotropic drugs in a similar (history/chemistry) fashion.
It's certainly not for everyone. But for me, this book makes learning this already fascinating subject an even bigger blast by bringing it to three dimensional living, breathing life. I could go on and on. But I'll just finish by slamming down my 5 star stamp of gratitude and approval. Cha Cunk!
Drugged is as good of an example of contemporary science writing as I can cite. Before I listened to it (it's available on audable.com) I would have thought no one could possibly make the field of psychopharmacology get up and dance. But that is exactly what the author; Richard J. Miller did, and how!
As I mentioned, I listened to this book, and frankly, I'm quite certain I would not have enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed the listen (certainly not always the case, but this time I have to say so). The reader gave a fantastic performance. He has this pompous as hell posh British accent that lends itself perfectly to the task of bringing to life, this rich text, part history, and part chemistry lesson, with the intermittent recitation of some Victorian era letters of correspondence. Think Mr. French meets Gore Vidal......perfect!
The book begins with hallucinogens (aka entheogens) starting with the Soma of mythological lore and winding up with LSD and the1960's new age, hippy culture that accompanied its emergence into popular culture, replete with all the cool chemistry clearly explained. What a treat. The book proceeds to systematically cover each of the broad category of psychotropic drugs in a similar (history/chemistry) fashion.
It's certainly not for everyone. But for me, this book makes learning this already fascinating subject an even bigger blast by bringing it to three dimensional living, breathing life. I could go on and on. But I'll just finish by slamming down my 5 star stamp of gratitude and approval. Cha Cunk!