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Ancient Drugs
Title
Ancient Drugs [electronic resource (video)] / Driscoll, Emily V.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c1998.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 30, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
This documentary examines the use of drugs and other substances in a quest for altered consciousness. Since the beginning of mankind, people have sought ways to reach a higher plane of existence and to that end have created rituals that included odd, toxic, and sometimes lethal substances. Ancient Drugs interviews psychologists, physicians, spiritualists, and historians to uncover the often surprising history and uses of drugs around the world.
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Films on demand.
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Originally produced: Driscoll, Driscoll V., 1998.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
12 and up.
Contents
Altered State of Consciousness (2:06)
Spiritual Quests (2:35)
Drugs and Religion (4:01)
Potions to Alter Consciousness (3:40)
Eleusinian Sacrament (2:40)
Distillation Creates Mind Altering Substances (1:43)
Vatican Bans Chocolate (2:45)
Tobacco, Coca Leaf and the Spirit World (3:52)
The San Pedro Rights (6:34)
Cocaine: Science and the Dark Side of Drugs (5:08)
Spiritual Path to Drug Control? (3:06)
Ritual Use of Intoxicants (2:28)
Credits: Ancient Drugs (0:59)
Videorecording number
45412 Infobase
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Educational films.
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