Product Description

Together, the first two editions of "Buzzed" have sold over 120,000 copies - and now the authors have revised and updated the book to include the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, and the date-rape drug GHB. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, this no-nonsense handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and abused drugs, from alcohol, caffeine and nicotine to heroin, Ecstasy and methamphetamine. In both quick-reference summaries and in-depth analysis, it reports on how these drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short-term and long-term effects, the kinds of 'high' they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly.Neither a 'Just Say No' treatise nor a 'How to' manual, "Buzzed" is based on the conviction that people make better decisions with accurate information at hand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439991 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"Sane, sharp and up to speed on all the latest research" (The Independent), this is a new, paperback original edition of the "guide to the effects of legal and illicit drugs from coffee to cocaine" (The Economist)."

Ellen Gold, chair, Drug Task Force, American College Health Association
"What a great resource!"

From the Author
Take drug education into your own hands!
The authors of Buzzed are Professors at Duke UniversityMedical Center who were assisted by two college students.

We wrote Buzzed to empower everyone-- students, parents, and professionals--to take drug education into their own hands. Buzzed provides the honest, unbiased information that will help them do that.

Customer Reviews

Texas reader is misinformed
Unfortunately, the reader from Texas who took exception to GHB being listed as a toxic drug knows not wherof he speaks. I am a psychologist employed by a major HMO as a drug dependency specialist. I have seen, firsthand, that withdrawal from GHB can lead to seizures and coma, and can be life threatening. Just about any of the drugs of abuse can be taken safely. That there are studies indicating GHB can bebeneficial is nice but irrelevant to whether or not it can also be harmful. The two are not mutually exclusive. Any worthwhile discussion of drugs looks at BOTH sides of the coin.

Good, Up-to-Date, Easily Readable
This book reads a bit like a college-level health education text book and is not very technical, but it is an interesting read nevertheless. Each chapter discusses to varrying degrees the affects (positive and negative) of each drug class.

The authors go to great lenghts to claim that their information is completely unbiased. This clearly is not the case, but their opinions do not add much 'spin' to the book.

The information presented is very current (as of mid-1998).

Factual information is not very well documented: There are several items for which I would have liked to have the cited refernce, but they are not included.

This book will probablly be most appreciated by college students, high school students and teachers, and health care providers who do not have a strong scientific background.

Much biased information, a good read in politics
Well, another conservative review of the drug scene in America. It seems the authors forgot that the Medline data they so effusively praised was generated from studies that were totally biased against drugs. Neither the US nor the Canadian governments will fund studies which have as their objective the discovery of positive effects for illegal drugs. NIDA, the Health Protectin Branch in Canada, will not provide money or the drugs themselves, much less approval, unless scientists do what THEY want. What's really sad is that the authors, so well educated and intelligent, cannot even see these simple facts.

Jason Lalancette