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The river road : a novel / by Osborn, Karen.(CARDINAL)361069;
David and Michael Sanderson are brothers, inseparable since childhood from each other and from their neighbor, Kay Richards, who has become a complicated young woman involved in a passionate and obsessive love affair with David. One spring night, while at home on a break from college, the threesome embark on a night of adventure and experimentation, driving recklessly through the forested roads of the Connecticut Valley. Stopping at the French King Bridge, David -- full of youthful hubris and hallucinogens -- dares to jump off, mistakenly believing that he'll be able to swim ashore. With this senseless plunge into the frigid, swollen river he sets into motion an inexorable chain of events that indelibly alters the lives of everyone involved: Michael, who watched from the car; Kay, who stood next to him and helped him climb onto the rail; and both sets of stunned parents who receive phone calls on that March night.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Coming of age.; Drug abuse; LSD (Drug); Trials (Murder); Young women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The electric kool-aid acid test / by Wolfe, Tom,author.(CARDINAL)142495; Dyer, Geoff,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)273869;
"Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters"--
Subjects: Kesey, Ken; Wolfe, Tom; Hippies; Drug addiction; LSD (Drug);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test / by Wolfe, Tom.(CARDINAL)142495;
Black shiny FBI shoes -- Bladder totem -- Electric suit -- What do think of my Buddha? -- Rusky-dusky neon dust -- Bus -- Unauthorized acid -- Tootling the multitudes -- Crypt trip -- Dream wars -- Unspoken thing -- Bust -- Hell's Angels -- Miracle in seven days -- Cloud -- The frozen jug band -- Departures -- Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry -- Trips festival -- The electric Kool-Aid acid test -- Fugitive -- Diablo! -- Red tide -- Mexican bust -- Secret agent number one -- The cops and robbers game -- The graduation -- Epilogue.Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counterculture canon of American literature.
Subjects: Kesey, Ken; Wolfe, Tom; Drug addiction; Drug abuse; Hippies; LSD (Drug); Social history;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 12
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Acid and hallucinogens / by Algeo, Philippa.(CARDINAL)751903;
Describes LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, their effects on the nervous system, and their long-term consequences.
Subjects: Drug abuse; Drug abuse; Drug abuse; Drugs; Hallucinogenic drugs; LSD (Drug); Medication.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Acid test : LSD, Ecstasy, and the power to heal / by Shroder, Tom,author.(CARDINAL)389238;
"A fascinating, transformative look at the therapeutic powers of psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of PTSD, and the past fifty years of scientific, political, and legal controversy they have ignited, by award-winning journalist Tom Shroder"--
Subjects: Biographies.; LSD (Drug); Ecstasy (Drug); Hallucinogenic drugs; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Mental illness; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Mentally ill;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 10
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Tripped : Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age / by Ohler, Norman,author.(CARDINAL)339412; Yarbrough, Marshall,translator.(CARDINAL)632880;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-211) and index.Introduction: Patient information leaflet -- The zone -- From paint to medicine -- At the Zurich train station -- On location: Novartis company archive -- The mice don't notice a thing -- Swiss cheese and ergot -- Agrochemistry -- LSD in the archive -- Arthur Stoll's art -- The other Richard -- Brainwashing -- The trip chamber -- Alsos -- The missing box -- Advisor Kuhn -- Pork chops -- LSD in America -- Brain warfare -- CEO and CIA -- The case of Frank Olson -- Menticide -- Operation Midnight Climax -- Mösch-Rümms -- Bulk order -- LSDJFK -- The revolt of the guinea pigs -- The bear -- Elvis meets Nixon -- A case of wine -- Light Vader Hofmann -- Epilogue: LSD for Mom."Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove "useful" to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a "truth serum" and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD. Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz, the Nazis coopted the drug for their mind control military research-research that, following the war, the US was desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra, the CIA's notorious brainwashing and psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately shaped US drug policy regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Tripped is a wild, unconventional postwar history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Blitzed. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs"--
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Brainwashing; Brainwashing; Drug control; Drug control; LSD (Drug); LSD (Drug);
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 19
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Operation White Rabbit : LSD, the DEA, and the fate of the Acid King / by McDougal, Dennis,author.(CARDINAL)359691;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316)."Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall--and rise and fall again--of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the 'Acid King.' Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a government informer, a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and the biggest producer of LSD on the planet--if you believe the DEA. A narrative for fans of Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind, Pickard's personal story is set against a fascinating chronicle of the social history of psychedelic drugs from the 1950s on"--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pickard, William Leonard.; Hallucinogenic drugs; LSD (Drug); Psychonauts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Outside looking in : a novel / by Boyle, T. Coraghessan,author.(CARDINAL)349307;
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their ٢research٣ becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos, Boyle moves us through the Loneys' initiation at one of Leary's parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the Loneys' eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees-students, wives, and children-living together in a sixty-four room mansion and devoting themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996; Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996; Graduate students; Drug abuse; LSD (Drug); Communal living;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 34
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The microdosing guidebook : a step-by-step manual to improve your physical and mental health through psychedelic medicine / by Spotswood, C. J.,Author(local)tlcaut25611231996200;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-284).Microdosing, or taking between 1/10th and 1/20th of the normal dose of a psychedelic drug is the latest way to improve performance, stave off chronic pain, and alleviate a variety of other ailments like anxiety and depression. Unlike a psychedelic trip, microdosing does not alter your mental status or interfere with day-to-day life. Part handbook and part workbook, The Microdosing Guidebook is your ultimate reference for safely using psychedelic medicine.
Subjects: Fungi; Mushrooms; Psilocybin.; Drugs; LSD (Drug); Hallucinogenic drugs; Physical fitness; Mental health; Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic; Drugs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outside looking in [sound recording] : a novel / by Boyle, T. Coraghessan,author(CARDINAL)349307; McClain, Johnathan,1970-narrator(CARDINAL)603175;
Performed by Johnathan McClain.In this stirring and insightful novel, T. C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.
Subjects: Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.; Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.; Communal living; Drug abuse; Graduate students; LSD (Drug);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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