Author: Peter LauriePublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Drugs
Author: Peter LauriePublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Drugs Medical. Psychological and Social Facts
Author: P. LaurieDrugs
Author: Peter LaurieBlaming the Brain
Author: Elliot ValensteinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743237870
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In Blaming the Brain Elliott Valenstein exposes the many weaknesses inherent in the scientific arguments supporting the widely accepted theory that biochemical imbalances are the main cause of mental illness. He lays bare the commercial motives of drug companies and their huge stake in expanding their markets. This provocative book will force patients, practitioners, and prescribers alike to rethink the causes of mental illness and the methods by which we treat it.
Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior
Author: John JungPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412967643
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
""Excellent text for covering alcohol and other drugs of abuse.""
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Fact Sheets
Author: United States. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous DrugsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Fact Sheet
Author: Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Drug Use in America
Author: United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug AbusePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Cult of Pharmacology
Author: Richard DeGrandprePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822388197
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and marijuana was available as a tincture of cannabis sold by Parke Davis and Company. Exploring how this rather benign relationship with psychoactive drugs was transformed into one of confusion and chaos, The Cult of Pharmacology tells the dramatic story of how, as one legal drug after another fell from grace, new pharmaceutical substances took their place. Whether Valium or OxyContin at the pharmacy, cocaine or meth purchased on the street, or alcohol and tobacco from the corner store, drugs and drug use proliferated in twentieth-century America despite an escalating war on “drugs.” Richard DeGrandpre, a past fellow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and author of the best-selling book Ritalin Nation, delivers a remarkably original interpretation of drugs by examining the seductive but ill-fated belief that they are chemically predestined to be either good or evil. He argues that the determination to treat the medically sanctioned use of drugs such as Miltown or Seconal separately from the illicit use of substances like heroin or ecstasy has blinded America to how drugs are transformed by the manner in which a culture deals with them. Bringing forth a wealth of scientific research showing the powerful influence of social and psychological factors on how the brain is affected by drugs, DeGrandpre demonstrates that psychoactive substances are not angels or demons irrespective of why, how, or by whom they are used. The Cult of Pharmacology is a bold and necessary new account of America’s complex relationship with drugs.