Breaking awake : my search for a new life through drugs
Moskowitz, P. E., 1988-2025
Book
In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers. For P.E. Moskowitz, this was a shattering near-death experience, followed by a nervous breakdown. As they willed themselves back to life using a variety of drugs, both prescription and illegal, they started to wonder: why do we need drugs to quell the pain of modern life? In Breaking Awake, Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through the twenty-first century's mental health crisis and the drugs we take - from fentanyl to SSRIs, from ketamine to LSD and beyond - to cope with the gnawing bleakness of our present moment. We meet a team handing out free heroin on the streets of Vancouver and a young mother in Chicago who has been on SSRIs since childhood, ravers in Brooklyn taking drugs to push the limits of human consciousness and ordinary people leading ordinary lives on a constant cocktail of medication. Searching for answers to find a path to healing, Moskowitz asks: do drugs spark liberation or simply numb our modern malaise?
Main title:
Breaking awake : my search for a new life through drugs / P.E. Moskowitz.
Author:
Moskowitz, P. E., 1988-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.©2025
Collation:
vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
First published: New York : Arria Books, 2025.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526658081 (paperback)9781526658067 (hardback)
Dewey class:
362.29092362.29
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
495948