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Matters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A User

Griffith Edwards

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Matters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A User

Drugs can be injected, snorted, smoked or swallowed. They can heighten excitement or numb emotion. They are sold by multi-national corporations and on street corners. They can cure and kill. From alcohol to amphetamines, cannabis to crack cocaine, heroin to valium, Griffith Edwards reveals the history, culture and language behind each type of drug - their physical and psychological effects, medical uses, trade routes, the involvement of big business and the chequered path of control and legislation. He considers the key issues surrounding drugs: which are most dangerous? Why do some people become addicted? What causes a drug epidemic? As Edwards argues, only when we truly understand drugs can we hope to deal with them, and this enlightened and informative book will inform all future debates on the subject.

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Publisher
ALLEN LANE
Year
2005
ISBN-13
9780141003092
Genre
Science & Technology
Topics
Drug use and addictionPharmacology and medicineDrug policy and legislation

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