Research Catalog

Title

Forbidden drugs / Philip Robson.

Author

Robson, Philip

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xviii, 260 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Recreational drug use is a world-wide phenomenon. Despite the best efforts of governments, the public fascination with drugs shows no signs of abating. With media accounts of illegal drug use often verging on the hysterical, this book provides a refreshingly balanced and honest account of drug use throughout the world, one based on scientific fact, and not dogma. The book examines all the drugs currently used throughout the world, looking at their effects and side-effects. Why do people use drugs? Why do they become addicted? What are the lessons to be learned from making drugs illegal? Updated for the third edition with chapters rewritten to take account of scientific, epidemiological and political developments since the second edition, and with a new section on the present and future US drug policy from high-profile contributors, the book provides a much needed rational approach to the problem of drug use.

Subject

• Substance abuse
• Psychotropic drugs > Popular works
• Drug abuse
• Narcotics > Physiological effect
• Drug abuse > Social aspects
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Illicit Drugs
• Substance-Related Disorders > etiology

Genre/Form

Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why use drugs? -- The consequences of drug use -- Alcohol -- Tobacco -- Cannabis -- cocaine amphetamines, and other stimulants -- Psychedelics and hallucinogens -- The inhalants -- Ecstasy and other 'party drugs' -- Anabolic steroids -- Tranquillizers and sleeping pills -- Heroin and the opioids -- The nature of addiction -- Helping problem drug users -- International drug policy : is it working?

ISBN

• 9780199559961 (pbk.)
• 0199559961 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 318415678
• SCSB-12041395

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library