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The definitive guide to the science of psychedelics--"the perfect intro for anyone curious about psychedelics and MDMA" (Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former executive director, Drug Policy Alliance)--and how they can impact our health by world-renowned, leading authority Professor David Nutt. We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain. Professor David Nutt, one of the world's leading Neuropsychopharmacologists, has spent 15 years researching this field and it is his most significant body of work to date. In 2018, he co-founded the first academic psychedelic research center - underpinned by his mission to provide evidence-based information for people everywhere. It revived interest in the understanding and use of this drug in its many forms, including MDMA, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, LSD and ketamine. The results of this have been nothing short of ground-breaking for the future categorization of drugs, but also for what we now know about brain mechanisms and our consciousness. At a time where there is an enormous amount of noise around the benefits of psychedelics, this book contains the knowledge you need to know about a drug that is about to go mainstream, free from the hot air, direct from the expert. Are you ready to change your mind?

From a world-renowned authority on alcohol abuse, a book that exposes the side effects drinking imposes on our overall health-and how we can moderate our consumption. From after-work happy hour to a nightly glass of wine, we're used to thinking of alcohol as a normal part of our daily lives. In Drink?, neuropharmacology professor David Nutt takes a fascinating, science-based look at drinking to unpack why we should reconsider our favorite pastime. Nutt addresses topics such as hormones, mental health, fertility, and addiction, explaining how alcohol effects us even after it leaves our systems. With accessible language, Nutt ensures that readers recognize why alcohol can have such a negative influence on our bodies and our society. Drink? gives readers clear, evidence-based facts to help them make the most informed choices about their alcohol intake.

Spanning a hundred years and three continents, these stories examine ways in which our existence is defined by search and rescue.A man searches for significance in the birth of his child while a woman learns the true consequence of a loss of face. A demon discovers the emptiness of evil, a homeless man clings on to his love of literature, and a mother and her children escape abuse.The tales scatter in every direction while maintaining a sense of inevitability. We may not realise that we are searching or appreciate that we have been rescued but no matter, our story continues to unfurl, consistent, escapable and entirely necessary.

The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? The issue of what a drug is and how we should live with them affects us all: parents, teachers, users – anyone who has taken a painkiller or drunk a glass of wine. Written by renowned psychiatrist, Professor David Nutt, Drugs without the hot air casts a refreshingly honest light on drugs and answers crucial questions that are rarely ever disputed. What are we missing by banning medical research into magic mushrooms, LSD and cannabis? Can they be sources of valuable treatments? How can psychedelics treat depression?Drugs without the hot air covers a wide range of topics, from addiction and whether addictive personalities exist to the role of cannabis in treating epilepsy, an overview on the opioid crisis, and an assessment of how harmful vaping is. This new expanded and revised second edition includes even more details on international policies, particularly in the US. David's research has won international support, reducing drug-related harm by introducing policies that are founded on scientific evidence. But there is still a lot to be done. Accessibly written, this much-awaited second edition is an important book for everyone that brings us all up to date with the 'war of drugs'.

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTHAlcohol - a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time... As the most harmful drug in the UK, it has a profound and wide-reaching impact on our health and on society at large. Drink? is the first book of its kind, written by a scientist and rooted in 40 years of medical research and hands-on experience treating patients. Professor David Nutt cuts through the noise to explain the long- and short-term effects of alcohol, makes complex science digestible and takes readers through its journey inside the body and brain from the very first sip.Drink? holds the key to all the questions you want to know the answers to, covering mental health, sleep, hormones, fertility and addiction. It sheds light on what 'responsible drinking' truly means and equips us with the essential knowledge we all need to make rational, informed decisions about our consumption now and in the future.

A stimulating account of interest to all students of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology or biology — and of immense value to ‘first timers’ including undergraduates and A-level students. Written by one of the UK’s leading brain science experts, it traces the relationship between the ions, membranes and pumps of the brain and our thoughts, senses, feelings, impulses and consciousness. The book deals with such tantalising questions as: What are the ‘locks and keys’ of the brain? How does memory work and why do we forget? Why do we sleep, dream, and hopefully wake-up ready to go? How do fears, threats and nightmares penetrate our mental defences, or drugs, alcohol, psychedelics and medicines improve or hinder our thoughts, actions or behaviour? Are our eyes connected to the brain and why do we sometimes see things that aren’t there? Or hear ‘voices’? The book also explains how we can ‘see inside’ the brain, why we sometimes make a fool of ourselves, may have near death experiences and whether epilepsy is an ‘affliction of the Gods.’ Similarly what scientists know about the differences between delusion and schizophrenia; or the links between worry, anxiety, depression, mania and euphoria. It also covers obsession, stress and repetitive behaviour — just some of many topics dealt with within its revealing pages. An expert, scientific but simple guide.

V svoej knige Natt postaralsja prostym jazykom otvetit na beschislennye voprosy, svjazannye s ukhodjaschim vo tmu vekov simbiozom cheloveka i etanola. Pochemu alkogol - narkotik? Kak on dejstvuet na nashu psikhiku? Kak izbezhat pokhmelja? Pochemu ot pjanstva osobenno stradaet pechen? Kakovy sotsialnye preimuschestva vypivki? Kak ponjat, chto u tebja formiruetsja zavisimost? Byvajut li uspeshnye alkogoliki? Kakie strategii pomogajut kontrolirovat upotreblenie alkogolja? Vinovat li alkogolik v svoem polozhenii? Kak rabotajut razlichnye lekarstvennye preparaty dlja lechenija alkogolnoj zavisimosti? Chto dolzhny predprinimat v etoj svjazi pravitelstva? Vsja eta informatsija, podkreplennaja samymi sovremennymi nauchnymi dannymi, dolzhna pomoch kazhdomu iz nas opredelit dlja sebja tu idealnuju dozu spirtnogo, kotoraja prineset maksimalnuju radost pri minimalnom vrede, - i v konechnom itoge otvetit na vechnyj vopros "Pit ili ne pit?".

V svoej knige Natt postaralsja prostym jazykom otvetit na beschislennye voprosy, svjazannye s ukhodjaschim vo tmu vekov simbiozom cheloveka i etanola. Pochemu alkogol - narkotik? Kak on dejstvuet na nashu psikhiku? Kak izbezhat pokhmelja? Pochemu ot pjanstva osobenno stradaet pechen? Kakovy sotsialnye preimuschestva vypivki? Kak ponjat, chto u tebja formiruetsja zavisimost? Byvajut li uspeshnye alkogoliki? Kakie strategii pomogajut kontrolirovat upotreblenie alkogolja? Vinovat li alkogolik v svoem polozhenii? Kak rabotajut razlichnye lekarstvennye preparaty dlja lechenija alkogolnoj zavisimosti? Chto dolzhny predprinimat v etoj svjazi pravitelstva? Vsja eta informatsija, podkreplennaja samymi sovremennymi nauchnymi dannymi, dolzhna pomoch kazhdomu iz nas opredelit dlja sebja tu idealnuju dozu spirtnogo, kotoraja prineset maksimalnuju radost pri minimalnom vrede, - i v konechnom itoge otvetit na vechnyj vopros "Pit ili ne pit?".

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Nine stories about befuddled loners, estranged friends, and detonated families, all hobbled by various acts of self-sabotage, yet still they flounder forth, grasping at every loose thread as if it were a lifeline, only to unravel themselves instead. "A sentence in David Nutt's hands turns into something 'shiny and lethal to brandish' in these fiercely imagined spaces where 'even the ferns look nervous.' Under house arrest, crazed by love or war, the freakishy wounded or self-wounding characters in these stories break their bonds for pharmaceutical relief, and we follow them in astonishment at their excess. Summertime in the Emergency Room is a remarkable debut collection of stories from a gifted writer." -Christine Schutt "When it comes to David Nutt, the only thing I love more than his sharp, inventive and seismically funny style is the deep humanity from which it springs. His is a brilliant and much needed voice in these sad, ridiculous times." -Sam Lipsyte "Witty, exacting, and full of exuberant prose, Summertime in the Emergency Room is one of those high-velocity collections in which every story swerves and surprises. It is oddly exhilarating to witness Nutt's characters careen and stagger through their darkest moments and worst decisions, their voices full of heat. This is a stylish, blisteringly inventive book." -Kimberly King Parsons "David Nutt's Summertime in the Emergency Room contains stories that reveal the psychological truths of the human condition. Here are stories that are strange, heartbreaking, told with precision and delicacy that recalls such writers as Garielle Lutz and Mary Robison. The world shown here through Nutt's eyes shows a writer with a deep and passionate understanding of language." -Brandon Hobson "'Do you ever think about how lucky we are? To be alive and awake in this thrilling historical epoch, just moments before the apocalyptic collapse' This collection of otherworldly stories reads like a hallucinogenic negative print of the world we are inhabiting today. Sick adolescents stall on unfinished algebra equations that speak to larger enigmas. They burn ants with magnifying lenses, smear them like sauce onto a slide, and patiently wait for the red guts to bake under a microscope's glare. Adults are stitched up, half dead, or generally so checked out that they are never to be trusted. Molars get extracted with pliers and sadness gets sucked out with straws. Pee gets archived in soda bottles. Nutt reveals the 'dark strain of lonely, ' one you want to live in even when it hurts because it's a comforting through line to a very contemporary feeling of solitude." -Chiara Barzini "I recommend this collection of stories by an author who generates Nabokovian pyrotechnics on the sentence level and whose characters are mind warping combinations of your neighbor and your most hideous nightmare. Bags of gases and juices and metal parts, they are subservient to the demonic narrative collectively named American Suburbia, and they are fall-off-your-chair funny, rueful, comic and tragic-just like you or me. He's a new voice and he teaches you how to read him as you go. He's Bosch, Hopper, (Dennis and Edward both) and he MAKES IT NEW, kids, like the best writers must." -James Robison