The Real Drug Abusers
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:16th May '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
While well over one million small-time drug users languish in overcrowded prisons because of nonviolent drug offenses, tens of thousands of others get rich from legal and illegal drugs. Drug company representatives persuade doctors to prescribe inferior products. Children as young as two are routinely given powerful drugs. Legal drugs, taken exactly as prescribed, are a leading cause of illness and death. Scientists beholden to drug companies fabricate and misrepresent data. This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Leavitt shows how and why American society must change its medical and policy approaches to drugs and re-orient medical practice to new ways of thinking.
The Real Drug Abusers is a devastating presentation of the propaganda and deceit that defines the pharmaceutical industry. This book presents a fascinating glimpse of the academic, economic, and medical abuses that are associated with legal drugs. -- Alexander Shulgin
The dichotomy that Fred Leavitt highlights demonstrates a need to rethink how we deal with all drugs while we dismantle the damaging war on drugs. -- Kevin B. Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy
By juxtaposing the many ills of the war on drugs with the corruption of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, Leavitt expertly diagnoses our systemic national pathology concerning drugs—both illegal and legal. -- Ethan Nadelmann, executive director, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation
This book will interest college students of nearly any level. Recommended. * CHOICE *
This is one of the most important contributions to the field of drug research of the last decade. It is authoritative in its rendering of the complexities of the drug interaction effects, yet written in a straightforward and available style. -- Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley
ISBN: 9780742525184
Dimensions: 227mm x 148mm x 14mm
Weight: 381g
284 pages