Product Description

This fascinating account of the development and use of this twentieth-century drug provides a wealth of factual information alongside some informed insights into the future for heroin in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312947 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

New Statesman
"They overturn many of the powerful myths surrounding the drug...[S]hould be read by anyone who wants to stay informed on the drugs debate."

Review

'The book is written with insight and humour. It provides an informative platform for any future debate about heroin and how we can move away from the current impasse.' - John Witton, Drug Link

'This fascinating account should be read by anyone who wants to stay informed on the drugs debate.' - New Statesman

'If you read no other book on drug misuse, read this one ... this is an intelligent book that requires intelligent reading ... at the very least you will be well informed but at most you will be greatly entertained.' - British Journal of General Practice

'This level-headed, informative and witty book ... should be read by every politician, parent and physician.' - The Economist

The British Journal of General Practice
"If you read no other book on drug misuse, read this one....at the very least you will be informed but at most you will be greatly entertained."

Customer Reviews

Essential Reading
Having had the privelage of knowing Ian Smith & Dr Carnworth, this book is one of the few that confronts issues of class, power, control,Globalisation, crimminalisation,marginalisation, etc, and hints at a potential radical critique of the 'Drug Wars' roles in the emergance of a new social, politcil, economic, and epistemeological'order' that are currently identified by the term 'Globalisation. This s doe via the prism of developments in the UK over the past 30 years + more.

It comes from a unique UK based perspective & serves as testemant to the legacy that Ian Smith left & challenged us with

He gave the best ever presentation I have had the privelage to witness, sadly it was never recorded & the abstracts/power point presentation, fails to encompass the full range & passion of his speech.
This is worthy of his name & memory. Ian passed away but his legacy lives on.

Dr Tom Carnworth is one of the senior consultants treating & working with Users today. He has proved himself a true ally of the User Movement in the broadest sense & has proven a consistant campaigner for Harm Reduction & civil Liberty's as well as being a highly respected and empathatic Doctor in his own right.

It takes a brave practictioner to participate and be joint author of a radical text such as this.

Alan Joyce. Uk. Advocate retired.

Heroin Century
An excellent book if occasionally hyperbolic. A good overview of the treatment of heroin and its relatives in the UK over the past 100 years. especially good, as one would expect, are the sections on Heroin and Crime and Treatment.

I recommend going for a pint with the authors more - especially if you can get them to put their hands in their pockets ....

A dispassionate education in heroin
This extraordinarily comprehensive yet concise description of all aspects of heroin is a surprisingly compulsive read. It looks dispassionately at the history, politics,chemistry and subjective experience of heroin from a world-wide perspective, and demolishes many myths surrounding the drug - thereby allowing a more reasoned and balanced view of what our policies towards it should be. The book makes a persuasive case for legalisation ,which it argues is inevitable in any case.
The writing is witty and colourful and benefits from a very wide frame of reference. I highly recommend it.