------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:36:09 -0500 Reply-to: [log in to unmask] From: brenda hammack <[log in to unmask]> Organization: InfiNet Subject: Re: addiction To: [log in to unmask] Louis Lewin's _Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants_ (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1998) could be useful. The book is a reprint of a 1924 work by a prolific pharmacologiest. Lewin is basically summarizing his work from the 1880s. He covers opium, chloral, cocaine, heroin, morphine, hashish, alcohol, kava-kava, coffee, tobacco, arsenic, and lots of other substances that he classifies as euphorica (mental sedatives), phantastica (hallucinating substances), inebriantia, hypnotica (soporifics), and excitatia. Brenda Mann Hammack [log in to unmask]