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TFA does say so: > During the following 10 years or so, Sacks took a prodigious amount of amphetamines and psychotropics – “every dose an overdose” – with one
by quietbritishjim 2y ago
TFA does say so:
> During the following 10 years or so, Sacks took a prodigious amount of amphetamines and psychotropics – “every dose an overdose” – with one trip producing visions of the “neurological heavens” so intense it inspired him to write his first book, Migraine (1970).
That time frame matches the NPR episode you cited:
> One chapter, called "Altered States," described his own experiments with mind-altering drugs in the '60s when he was a neurology resident.
- ttctciyf 2y agoOops! Make that "though you wouldn't know it from hastily skimming TFA and a quick ctl-F on the wrong term in a misguided attempt to confirm your existing bias" then. Mea culpa! Hallucinations has quite a bit of info on Sacks' career as a psychonaut which progressed over several decades (iirc).