| Description |
312 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis was a teenager in boarding school, experimenting with cough syrup and alcohol to assuage his depression. When he moved to Berkeley, California, the pulsing heart of the counter- cultural movement, he began using LSD and heroin. Thirty-four years on, Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist, and he studies the brains of troubled children. But he never forgets that he was once one of those kids -- and that, no matter how many scienti?c conferences he attends, he always will be |
| Notes |
First published in Canada by Doublebay Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) |
| Subject |
Lewis, Marc D.
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Lewis, Marc.
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Compulsive behavior.
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Drug addicts -- Biography.
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Neuroscientists -- Biography.
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Substance abuse.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781921844607 (paperback) |
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