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“His descriptions of how various drugs produce their effects will ring many bells on their own. But it’s the way he drapes his scientific understanding of human chemical function over the frame of his own life that makes his memoir compelling.”

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bod1Informed by unparalleled neuroscientific insight and written with his usual flare, Marc Lewis’s The Biology of Desire effectively refutes the medical view of addiction as a brain disease. A bracing and informative corrective to the muddle that now characterizes public and professional discourse on this topic.” —Gabor Maté, M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
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