Product Description: Looking for a book about quitting smoking? This isn’t it. Smoking has been with us a long time. From the native Americans, for whom smoking the sacred pipe was a way of communing with the ­spirits, to the early feminists for whom the “little white slaver” was ­ironically a sign of liberation, smoking has meant many things to many people...read more

Product Description: The ward staff, having had time to regroup, had decided it was best to confront my behavior and by the time the cops appeared had corralled me in my room. Until then they had been talking with me too reasonably. Then the cops showed up; that is when they produced The Needle...read more

Product Description: I remember an instance at one point, during my late twenties or early thirties, when I wondered what it would be like to hear voices. At that time I was slightly acquainted with a schizophrenic named Mike, who told me that he had Jesus in his head...read more

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