Memoirs of an Addicted Brain Lewis Marc
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain Lewis Marc 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…
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain Lewis Marc
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. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of desperation, deception, and crime. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin; he sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia; and frequented Calcutta's opium dens.
In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered to become a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience.