Freud and cocaine

by Marty Roth

"Desiring early fame and material success, Freud" "looked for a key in medicine and thought he had found it in" "cocaine. Freud championed the drug in glowing terms; he called" "it, Stanley Edgar Hyman writes, his ""magic carpet"" and “thrust it" "on all and sundry, including his sisters, friends, patients," "colleagues--everyone”"