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By Murray Carpenter
Hudson Street Press, 2014, 270 pages, $25.95
Murray Carpenter’s readers will learn that a sixteenth of a teaspoon of caffeine is a solid dose for a habituated user, and a tablespoon will kill him. That a Starbucks “grande” drink contains as much caffeine as seven cans of Red Bull energy drink. And that caffeine is the stuff of the largest and least-regulated drug trade in the United States. Carpenter earned a master’s degree in environmental studies at UM and has written for national newspapers.