Mescaline’s Bio, Soberly Considered
Philip Alcabes considers Mike Jay’s biography of the psychedelic drug mescaline.
Philip Alcabes teaches at Hunter College in New York City. As an epidemiologist, he studies drug use and users in the context of AIDS and other social crises. He has written a book on epidemics entitled Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu (2009) and essays for The American Scholar, VQR, and other publications.
Philip Alcabes considers Mike Jay’s biography of the psychedelic drug mescaline.
Philip Alcabes makes sense of "Mind Fixers" by Anne Harrington.
Why are we drugging ourselves to death?