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Volume 1 features lectures 1 through 8, covering the origin of drugs, the history of U.S. drug law enforcement, human anatomy, the nervous system, the range of drug administrations, varieties of drug actions, memory and states of consciousness, and research methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe audiobook contains portions of the original 1987 recordings of Shulgin himself conducting his course and interacting with his students, interlaced with newly recorded narration. 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