Howard Markel

Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine (2014)

I was first introduced to Sigmund Freud as a teenager, and, as most of his theories seemed to revolve around sex and inhibition (joyfully celebrated in song by Melanie Safka), I wholeheartedly embraced his ideas. It was some years later that someone commented to me, "Well, you know he got half o...