Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

by Andreas and Peter Andreas

The story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.

There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197629997
• ISBN13: 9780197629994
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"