{"product_id":"breaking-awake-9781526658098","title":"Breaking Awake : My Search For A New Life Through Drugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e'An unflinching examination of contemporary culture's quest for the quick fix to emotional pain' LAURA DELANO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day? What is wrong with us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers. For P.E. Moskowitz, this was a shattering near-death experience, followed by a nervous breakdown. As they willed themselves back to life using a variety of drugs, both prescription and illegal, they started to wonder: why do we need drugs to quell the pain of modern life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Breaking Awake , Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through the twenty-first century’s mental health crisis and the drugs we take – from fentanyl to SSRIs, from ketamine to LSD and beyond – to cope with the gnawing bleakness of our present moment. We meet a team handing out free heroin on the streets of Vancouver and a young mother in Chicago who has been on SSRIs since childhood, ravers in Brooklyn taking drugs to push the limits of human consciousness and ordinary people leading ordinary lives on a constant cocktail of medication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for answers to find a path to healing, Moskowitz asks: do drugs spark liberation or simply numb our modern malaise?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: P.E. Moskowitz\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: general, Memoirs, Reportage \u0026amp; collected journalism\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 May 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"P.E. Moskowitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319549469050,"sku":"9781526658098","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781526658098.jpg?v=1790631094","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/breaking-awake-9781526658098","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}