DRUGS: The History Of Man's Love Affair With Getting High
DRUGS: Man’s Love Affair With Getting High is a fast-paced history of how humans have chased altered states from ancient temples to modern raves. It traces our enduring desire to get high across cultures and centuries, showing how the same impulses that fueled sacred rituals now drive nightlife, wellness trends, and pharmaceutical empires. Moving from priests burning incense to kids dropping ecstasy, from coca leaves and opium dens to pain clinics and the family medicine cabinet, the book reveals how drugs have shaped religion, art, war, and everyday life—and how power, profit, and pleasure keep colliding wherever substances are involved. DRUGS offers a clear-eyed, often surprising tour of our relationship with intoxication, asking not just what we use and how, but what our love of getting high says about us.