Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
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Sigmund Freud's Cocaine Epidemic
Sigmund Freud's work with cocaine was connected to the idea that modern civilization was making our brains work too hard. He did for the only time in his life actual real life experiments on humans, including himself. But he was blindsided when it turned out that other people were taking vast amounts of cocaine and injecting it.
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