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      Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs
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      Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs

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      The Spike and the Moon

      Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs

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      Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs book

      The Spike and the Moon
      ByGary Winship
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 28 June 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429471582
      Pages 148
      eBook ISBN 9780429471582
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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      Winship, G. (2012). Addictive Personalities and Why People Take Drugs: The Spike and the Moon (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429471582

      ABSTRACT

      'Why do we take drugs? I haven't the faintest idea, but Gary Winship has a damned good go at telling me the answer. Some might say this is a largely academic book, but as an ex-psychiatric nurse and a Jo Public for the last twenty-five years, I'd say there's something in here for everyone. We've all taken drugs at some point in our lives (except, perhaps, my grandma) so one way to find out why is by reading this fascinating book.'- Jo Brand, comic, author, and actress

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|15 pages

      Fixing The pill mentality

      chapter 2|16 pages

      Creation myths and breast junkies: in search of milk and honey

      chapter 3|21 pages

      “Dracula”: from Stoker’s classic of compulsion to Arthur’s dark room

      chapter 4|15 pages

      The Prometheus Syndrome: addiction, death, and the liver in mind

      chapter 5|25 pages

      The pleasure paradox: nirvana and death dependency

      chapter 6|15 pages

      Major Tom, Lucy, Bion, and the psychotic vacuum 1

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