CONTENTS -- PREFACE: Writing about Drugs -- NOTE -- PART I: Drugs, Sobriety, and the Metaphysics of Consumerism -- Introduction to Part I: The Very Short History of Sobriety -- 1. Pharmaka and Pharmakos -- 2. What Is "Straight" Consciousness? -- 3. A Phenomenology of Addiction -- PART II: What Drugs Do and Don't -- Introduction to Part II: What Drugs Do and Don't -- 4. User Construction -- 5. "High": Drugs, Perception, and Pleasure -- 6. Drugs and Thinking -- 7. Drugs, Regression, and Memory -- PART III: Five Drug Studies -- Introduction to Part III: Disclaimers -- 8. Cannabis and the War against Dreams -- 9. Runaway Engines of Desire -- 10. Mystery Drugs I: Alcohol -- 11. Mystery Drugs II: Acid Metaphysics -- 12. Squares and Cubes: Combinations of Drugs -- PART IV: Problems with Drugs -- 13. Drugs and Violence -- 14. Blow Money: Cocaine, Currency, and Consumerism -- 15. Sex, Drugs, Technology, and the Body -- CONCLUSION: Toward a Diversity of Consciousness -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.