Author: Brian D. Earp
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526145561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
What if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up? This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances affecting love and relationships, whether prescribed by doctors or even illicitly administered, are not some far-off speculation – indeed our most intimate connections are already being influenced by pills we take for other purposes, such as antidepressants. Treatments involving certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—might soon exist to encourage feelings of love and help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties. Others may ease a breakup or soothe feelings of rejection. Such substances could have transformative implications for how we think about and experience love. This brilliant intervention into the debate builds a case for conducting further research into "love drugs" and "anti-love drugs" and explores their ethical implications for individuals and society. Rich in anecdotal evidence and case-studies, the book offers a highly readable insight into a cutting-edge field of medical research that could have profound effects on us all. Will relationships be the same in the future? Will we still marry? It may be up to you to decide whether you want a chemical romance.
Love is the Drug
Author: Brian D. Earp
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526145561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
What if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up? This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances affecting love and relationships, whether prescribed by doctors or even illicitly administered, are not some far-off speculation – indeed our most intimate connections are already being influenced by pills we take for other purposes, such as antidepressants. Treatments involving certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—might soon exist to encourage feelings of love and help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties. Others may ease a breakup or soothe feelings of rejection. Such substances could have transformative implications for how we think about and experience love. This brilliant intervention into the debate builds a case for conducting further research into "love drugs" and "anti-love drugs" and explores their ethical implications for individuals and society. Rich in anecdotal evidence and case-studies, the book offers a highly readable insight into a cutting-edge field of medical research that could have profound effects on us all. Will relationships be the same in the future? Will we still marry? It may be up to you to decide whether you want a chemical romance.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526145561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
What if there were a pill for love? Or an anti-love drug, designed to help us break up? This controversial and timely new book argues that recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our romantic lives well within our grasp. Substances affecting love and relationships, whether prescribed by doctors or even illicitly administered, are not some far-off speculation – indeed our most intimate connections are already being influenced by pills we take for other purposes, such as antidepressants. Treatments involving certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—might soon exist to encourage feelings of love and help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties. Others may ease a breakup or soothe feelings of rejection. Such substances could have transformative implications for how we think about and experience love. This brilliant intervention into the debate builds a case for conducting further research into "love drugs" and "anti-love drugs" and explores their ethical implications for individuals and society. Rich in anecdotal evidence and case-studies, the book offers a highly readable insight into a cutting-edge field of medical research that could have profound effects on us all. Will relationships be the same in the future? Will we still marry? It may be up to you to decide whether you want a chemical romance.
Hard Sell
Author: Jamie Reidy
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740788868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes the reader on a hilarious romp through pharma-culture while revealing the controversial side of the drug industry. From viewing a circumcision to gaining a doctor's rapport to providing insight on why doctors choose to prescribe Drug X over Drug Y, and from how to bargain "sigs" and "scripts" to why the Viagra pill is shaped as a diamond, Reidy discloses everything. A witty, behind-the-scenes look at an industry that touches everyone in America with a prescription, Hard Sell uncovers truths about the pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know and practices you'd like to believe weren't employed. Hard Sell has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740788868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes the reader on a hilarious romp through pharma-culture while revealing the controversial side of the drug industry. From viewing a circumcision to gaining a doctor's rapport to providing insight on why doctors choose to prescribe Drug X over Drug Y, and from how to bargain "sigs" and "scripts" to why the Viagra pill is shaped as a diamond, Reidy discloses everything. A witty, behind-the-scenes look at an industry that touches everyone in America with a prescription, Hard Sell uncovers truths about the pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know and practices you'd like to believe weren't employed. Hard Sell has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
Random Family
Author: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.
Love Drugs
Author: Otto Snow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966312867
Category : Mescaline
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966312867
Category : Mescaline
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Our Love Affair with Drugs
Author: Jerrold Winter
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190051469
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Our Love Affair with Drugs, Jerrold Winter provides a nontechnical, accessible account of the effects of psychoactive drugs in America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190051469
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Our Love Affair with Drugs, Jerrold Winter provides a nontechnical, accessible account of the effects of psychoactive drugs in America.
Love and Other Drugs
Author: Mecca
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530178346
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Farrah Harris didn't grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her drug addicted mother exposed her and her sister Fatima to a life of turmoil and chaos. Still, Farrah preservers and does everything in her power to succeed in the streets of Philadelphia. She's on the right track until Ryan Wilks enters the picture and changes her life completely. The two of them embark on a whirlwind romance full of love. Unfortunately, a blast from Farrah's past comes into the picture and he's set on getting Farrah back and settling his vendetta with Ryan. With too much going on, and no idea on how to handle all that is coming at her, Farrah does her best to stay strong. As her life takes a drastic turn for the worse, will she come out on top? Or, will she succumb to the drug infested streets that may just take her out for good.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530178346
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Farrah Harris didn't grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her drug addicted mother exposed her and her sister Fatima to a life of turmoil and chaos. Still, Farrah preservers and does everything in her power to succeed in the streets of Philadelphia. She's on the right track until Ryan Wilks enters the picture and changes her life completely. The two of them embark on a whirlwind romance full of love. Unfortunately, a blast from Farrah's past comes into the picture and he's set on getting Farrah back and settling his vendetta with Ryan. With too much going on, and no idea on how to handle all that is coming at her, Farrah does her best to stay strong. As her life takes a drastic turn for the worse, will she come out on top? Or, will she succumb to the drug infested streets that may just take her out for good.
Love, Drugs, Art, Religion
Author: Mr Brian R Clack
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140940675X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this genuinely interdisciplinary work, Clack breaks new ground by using detailed explorations of the phenomena of drug-use, romantic love and the enjoyment of art in order to throw light on the meaning and nature of religion. This book will be vital reading for anyone concerned with the fundamental questions of religious belief, the psychoanalytic approach to culture, or simply the unavoidable existential problems lying at the very heart of human life.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140940675X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this genuinely interdisciplinary work, Clack breaks new ground by using detailed explorations of the phenomena of drug-use, romantic love and the enjoyment of art in order to throw light on the meaning and nature of religion. This book will be vital reading for anyone concerned with the fundamental questions of religious belief, the psychoanalytic approach to culture, or simply the unavoidable existential problems lying at the very heart of human life.
When Someone You Love Abuses Drugs Or Alcohol
Author: Cecil Murphey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780834121331
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of daily readings to inspire and comfort individuals whose loved ones suffer from drug or alcohol addiction.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780834121331
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of daily readings to inspire and comfort individuals whose loved ones suffer from drug or alcohol addiction.
Tikey
Author: Yosselly A. Lopez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469150123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
What is Love to a 17 year old boy and a 15 year old girl? Tiger is an average young man who starts to experiment love but ends falling into a deep hole. Drugs became an addiction and sex an obsession... Monkey is you, is me and it’s anyone it’s too easy to fit in her shoes because everyone looks for love. And it is said to be the closets thing to magic yet is also the closets thing to insanity... Some fear to love and other’s love in fear but now, add drugs to the fear and the love. You will find yourself in Tikey. Two domestic animals in the wild where love is the way to survival... Tikey is a combination of love, drugs and fear...
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469150123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
What is Love to a 17 year old boy and a 15 year old girl? Tiger is an average young man who starts to experiment love but ends falling into a deep hole. Drugs became an addiction and sex an obsession... Monkey is you, is me and it’s anyone it’s too easy to fit in her shoes because everyone looks for love. And it is said to be the closets thing to magic yet is also the closets thing to insanity... Some fear to love and other’s love in fear but now, add drugs to the fear and the love. You will find yourself in Tikey. Two domestic animals in the wild where love is the way to survival... Tikey is a combination of love, drugs and fear...
The Book of Drugs
Author: Mike Doughty
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306818779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306818779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.