Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater

Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

Lauren Slater

416 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science short stories informative slow-paced
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A groundbreaking and revelatory history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post). Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that ne...

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