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Lauren Slater in Conversation with Adam Haslett: The Science and Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

When Lauren Slater wrote Prozac Diary, almost 20 years ago, she documented how, as one of the first people to take this potent new antidepressant, her life changed. But we don’t know exactly why or how psychotropic drugs work; nor do we understand their long-term side effects. In Slater’s new book, BLUE DREAMS: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds, she brings us the explosive story of the invention of our licensed narcotics and the people and science behind the drugs. Slater explores her own conflicted relationship with antidepressants and antipsychotics while both authors discuss the development and dissemination of psychiatric drugs that now sustain one in five Americans.











When: Tue., Feb. 20, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $29
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When Lauren Slater wrote Prozac Diary, almost 20 years ago, she documented how, as one of the first people to take this potent new antidepressant, her life changed. But we don’t know exactly why or how psychotropic drugs work; nor do we understand their long-term side effects. In Slater’s new book, BLUE DREAMS: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds, she brings us the explosive story of the invention of our licensed narcotics and the people and science behind the drugs. Slater explores her own conflicted relationship with antidepressants and antipsychotics while both authors discuss the development and dissemination of psychiatric drugs that now sustain one in five Americans.

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