Drugs: Medical, Psychological and Social Facts - Peter Laurie

In 11 chapters, Peter Laurie examines "drugs" (the subtitle of the book is "Medical, Psychological, and Social Facts") - with the first chapter "The Meaning of Drug" teasing out varied viewpoints from doctors, policemen, addicts, and others involved. The editors "It represents, we believe, the first objective report to offer all the major medical, psychological, and social facts about drugs to a public which is too often fed with alarmist and sensational reports." Additional Archetypal Heroin; The Psychology of the Addict; Attitudes to Opiates; Sleepers; Thrusters; The Weed; Hallucinogens; LSD Applied; Cures and the End of Addiction; Control of Drugs. The book also has reference pages and an index.

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