[Get free] Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War
♛ Lukasz Kamienski ♛
| #462772 in Books | 2016-03-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.60 x1.50 x9.40l,.0 | File Name: 0190263474 | 416 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating look at the uses and abuses of drugs during wartime|By QUOKKA_54|Well written account of drug use in wartime, including alcohol, meth, morphine, heroin, marijuana and cocaine by soldiers in the armies fighting all the wars of history. How the Germans used Percocet during WW2 in their quest for the "super soldier", along with accounts of alcohol and morphine addi|||"Who knew that an historical, scholarly psychopharmacology of soldiering could be a page-turner? It shocks, drives self-reflection, intellectual excitement, fury at hypocrisy, and that third Aristotelian katharsis: mental clarification. Above all, this is a
Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. Stimulants (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines) have been used to tem...
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