Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

by Marc Lewis

Book Overview

A neuroscientist's unique and fascinating journey into his own addiction--for readers of Oliver Sacks and Andrew Solomon

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin; he sniffed nitrous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610392337
• ISBN13: 9781610392334
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"