High Society

‘A vivid report on the other side of drugs’ - Hanif Kureishi, Books of the Year, Guardian‘Excellent … shows that drug use stretches back too far, and too widely across the globe, to be considered an aberration of the human condition’ - Financial Times‘An excellent book … a wonderfully open-ended subject’ - Daily Telegraph‘Straightforward and engaging storytelling and cool headed analysis of use of, and attitudes towards, mind-altering drugs … deserves high praise for rendering a complex, controversial topic with clarity and elegance. It’s also good looking … quite marvellous’ - British Medical Journal‘Fascinating and highly recommended’ - Psychedelic Press

Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, Psychonauts, Mescaline and This Way Madness Lies, the latter also published by Thames & Hudson. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and an Honorary Research Fellow at HHC/UCL.