Aerosmith, 34, 39, 44, 50, 52, 54

Alcoholics Anonymous, xii, xiv, 45, 54, 98, 116, 194

American Beauty, 252, 254, 259

American Psycho, 229–230, 233, 235, 240–241, 245–247

anime, 136–137, 160

Baudrillard, Jean, 154, 171, 217–218, 225, 227, 234, 237, 239, 243, 246–247

Bergson, Henri, xv, 44

Braidotti, Rosi, 36, 47–48, 51, 53, 55, 243–244, 247

Brave New World, A, xvii, 5, 9, 21, 29–30

Buck-Morss, Susan, 58, 74–75, 82, 85, 87

Burroughs, William, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, 4–5, 7–8, 12, 27, 29–30, 36, 41–42, 47, 53, 55, 59, 64, 82

Busner, Zack, 265

Californication, 250, 268

Candy, 5, 9, 29

Child Pornography Prevention Act 1996, 157

Child Protection Act 1978, 151

Clare, Anthony, 273, 275

Cobain, Kurt, 34, 45, 54

cocaine, xvi, xix, xx, 9, 39, 42–43, 53, 86, 94, 96, 116, 182–183, 191–193, 204, 262

comics, xii, xx, 119, 121–123, 125–131, 133–140, 143

consumerism, 80, 238, 241, 261

Cooper, Alice, 37, 45, 52–53

COPINE scale, 154

crack, 11, 50, 54, 86–89, 94, 96, 109, 113–116, 182–183

De Quincey, Thomas, xiii, 5, 29

Deleuze, Gilles, xix, 35–37, 40, 42–43, 47–48, 51–55, 64–66, 69–71, 83, 86, 88, 171, 220, 228

Derrida, Jacques, 3, 6–7, 23, 30–31, 75–77, 82, 87–88, 202

Easton Ellis, 229, 246

Eberhardt, Isabelle, 20, 31

Ettorre, Elizabeth, 178, 201, 203, 205

Eysenck, H.J., 271

Faithfull, Marianne. 40, 53

Figgis, Mike, 264

Fight Club, xiv

Foucault, Michel, 52, 62–66, 69, 82–84, 115–116, 146, 168, 170, 173, 234, 241

Freud, Sigmund, 238–239, 254–255, 258, 276–277

Fromm, Erich, 265

Furedi, Frank, 50, 52, 55, 90, 102, 106, 115–116, 167, 201, 250–251, 270, 272, 276

Hahn, Emily, xvii, 2, 16–20, 31

heroin, xiv, xvii, xviii, 9, 11, 19, 27, 33–34, 36, 38–47, 49–54, 182–183, 191, 268

Hoggart, Richard, 125–128, 135, 139

Huxley, Aldous, xvii, 5, 9, 21, 29–30

hyperreality, 217

In Treatment, 268–270

Junky, 8, 30, 53, 59, 82