Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #369693 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Synopsis
The 'drug culture' is now so pervasive that it is part of everyday news in the Western world. In this powerful and illuminating new series, we commission a team of journalists to analyse and comment on the major substances that are seen by society as addictive and ultimately bad for our health. Packed with technical information, quotes from experts and users, illustrations to show the effect they have on the body, as well as the symptoms and consequences - whatever the reason for your interest in drugs, these are the books to read.

Customer Reviews

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If you wanted to inform yourself about heroin then there are no shortage of sources. It seems as if this book has summarised a few random ones from the Internet. Above all it failed to answer the question why people use it, preferring instead to concentrate on those dangers familiar to us from the anti-drug lectures in school. The one redeeming feature were the personal accounts from heroin addicts.