| Brian Johnson, M.D. Widespread Zombification in the 21st Century and the Wars of the Zombie Masters DRUGS For Kids -- and the Occasional Interested Parent |
How do you find out about addiction? If you are a kid, you usually hear about drugs from other kids.
They don’t know much, because they have just started using drugs, or haven’t used them. Parents
tend to know little about what is going on at school, and what knowledge they have tends to be a
generation out of date.
Addiction and drug use is actually a complicated area of knowledge. Addiction can be psychological,
brain changes are absolutely biological, and drug use occurs in a certain social context. Books for
teens tend to be written by novelists with variable knowledge of the topic.
No one has ever written a book like this. Dr. Johnson grew up with addicted parents. He taught at
Harvard Medical School for 30 years and is now Director of Addiction Psychiatry for the State
University of New York Upstate Medical University. He has treated 15,000 patients during
detoxification. He has treated a number of addicted patients in 4-days-per-week psychoanalysis,
including while they were drinking or injecting drugs. Dr. Johnson has had extensive dealings with
members of the drug culture and the recovery culture.
Widespread Zombification has 21st-century neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and social commentary
packaged as a page-turner; all written at a sixth-grade reading level.
They don’t know much, because they have just started using drugs, or haven’t used them. Parents
tend to know little about what is going on at school, and what knowledge they have tends to be a
generation out of date.
Addiction and drug use is actually a complicated area of knowledge. Addiction can be psychological,
brain changes are absolutely biological, and drug use occurs in a certain social context. Books for
teens tend to be written by novelists with variable knowledge of the topic.
No one has ever written a book like this. Dr. Johnson grew up with addicted parents. He taught at
Harvard Medical School for 30 years and is now Director of Addiction Psychiatry for the State
University of New York Upstate Medical University. He has treated 15,000 patients during
detoxification. He has treated a number of addicted patients in 4-days-per-week psychoanalysis,
including while they were drinking or injecting drugs. Dr. Johnson has had extensive dealings with
members of the drug culture and the recovery culture.
Widespread Zombification has 21st-century neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and social commentary
packaged as a page-turner; all written at a sixth-grade reading level.
