The Subject of Addiction

The earliest evidence of psychoactive drug use and knowledge of hallucinogenic plants dates back some 13,000 years.[2] Most early forms of religion used drugs in an attempt to gain divine knowledge. Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet, we hardly know anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people become addicted to drugs.…