商品簡介
A"Curiouser and curioserA" A-fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs.
Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including:
A The test results of animals on LSDA-cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns
A Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. JohnA's wort to beaver secretions
A Celebrities who overdosed at age 27A-Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat
A Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mAclange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange
A Nicknames for a jointA-from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle
A The global percentages of adults who have used cannabisA-.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States
A The uses of opium in ancient RomeA-from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness
A The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni
A Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world
Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.
作者簡介
Adriano Sack is a freelance journalist living in New York City.
Ingo Niermann is a writer living in Berlin.
