HOW do you start and end your day? The chances are that a mind-altering drug plays a part. You probably have a mid-morning drug too, and some more after lunch. Maybe your entire day is punctuated by trips outside to take drugs. And Saturday night wouldn’t be the same without drugs, would it?
Hard as it is to admit, almost all of us are avid consumers of mind-altering substances. For most people that means sticking to the legal ones: caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. But illegal drugs remain hugely, intractably popular. Intoxication is a near-universal human experience. Researchers argue that the…
