一般注記A universal impulse -- High societies -- The evolution of drugs -- Animal intoxication -- Drugs and shamanism -- Drugs and culture --The culture of kava -- The culture of betel -- Drug prohibitions -- Drug subcultures -- The cultures of ecstasy -- From apothecary to laboratory -- What is a drug? -- Drugs in antiquity -- Renaissance herbals -- Witches and flying ointments -- The invention of laudanum -- Linnaeus and the Enlightenment -- The first synthetic drugs -- Opium and the Romantics -- The Club des Haschischins -- Freud and cocaine -- Addiction and drug control -- Mescaline, LSD and beyond -- Drugs of the future -- The drugs trade -- Drugs of the New World -- The psychoactive revolution -- Tobacco in China, tea in Europe -- The opium wars -- The anti-opium campaign -- Temperance and prohibition -- The 'War on drugs.' -- Epilogue: the decline of tobacco.