Book 2011
An anatomy of addiction
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- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- History
- Cocaine
- Surgeons
- Anesthesiology
- Cocaine abuse
- History, 19th Century
- Cocaine-Related Disorders
- General Surgery
The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.