Description: The likely effects, precautions, and alternatives to a wide range of available substances, from coffee to marijuana, antihistamines to psychedelics, steroids to smart drugs, are discussed in this guide.
Brief description: Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned an international reputation as an expert on alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He is the associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine and the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.