Examines, through a Catholic lens, the phenomenon of chemical mood alteration and reflects on our feelings of pleasure and suffering and how they relate to the rest of our humanity.
Part 1 Drugs and Feelings
1 The Dilemma of Drugs
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2 The Body and Human Feeling
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Part 2 Drugs Taken to Produce Pleasure
3 Recreation and the Pleasures of the Psyche
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4 Marijuana and Deceptive Experience
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5 Real versus Counterfeit Delight
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6 Alcohol: Recreational Drug or Recreational Beverage?
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7 Beauty: Uniting Delight of Matter and Mind
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Part 3 Drugs Taken to Reduce Sorrow
8 Depression and Prescription Drugs
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9 The Value of Suffering
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10 Antidepressants
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Part 4 Moral Conclusions
11 Drugs and the Purpose of the Soul
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12 Which Drugs Am I Allowed to Take?
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Conclusion: "They Have No Wine": The Joy and Sorrow of the Mother of God
