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This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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The Real Drug Abusers is a devastating presentation of the propaganda and deceit that defines the pharmaceutical industry. This book presents a fascinating glimpse of the academic, economic, and medical abuses that are associated with legal drugs. -- Alexander Shulgin The dichotomy that Fred Leavitt highlights demonstrates a need to rethink how we deal with all drugs while we dismantle the damaging war on drugs. -- Kevin B. Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy By juxtaposing the many ills of the war on drugs with the corruption of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, Leavitt expertly diagnoses our systemic national pathology concerning drugs-both illegal and legal. -- Ethan Nadelmann, executive director, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation This book will interest college students of nearly any level. Recommended. CHOICE This is one of the most important contributions to the field of drug research of the last decade. It is authoritative in its rendering of the complexities of the drug interaction effects, yet written in a straightforward and available style. -- Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley

The Real Drug Abusers is a devastating presentation of the propaganda and deceit that defines the pharmaceutical industry. This book presents a fascinating glimpse of the academic, economic, and medical abuses that are associated with legal drugs. -- Alexander Shulgin The dichotomy that Fred Leavitt highlights demonstrates a need to rethink how we deal with all drugs while we dismantle the damaging war on drugs. -- Kevin B. Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy By juxtaposing the many ills of the war on drugs with the corruption of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, Leavitt expertly diagnoses our systemic national pathology concerning drugs-both illegal and legal. -- Ethan Nadelmann, executive director, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation This book will interest college students of nearly any level. Recommended. CHOICE This is one of the most important contributions to the field of drug research of the last decade. It is authoritative in its rendering of the complexities of the drug interaction effects, yet written in a straightforward and available style. -- Troy Duster, University of California, Berkeley

This is one of the most important contributions to the field of drug research of the last decade. It is authoritative in its rendering of the complexities of the drug interaction effects

The Real Drug Abusers is a devastating presentation of the propaganda and deceit that defines the pharmaceutical industry. This book presents a fascinating glimpse of the academic, economic, and medical abuses that are associated with legal drugs. -- Alexander Shulgin The dichotomy that Fred Leavitt highlights demonstrates a need to rethink how we deal with all drugs while we dismantle the damaging war on drugs. -- Kevin B. Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy By juxtaposing the many ills of the war on drugs with the corruption of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, Leavitt expertly diagnoses our systemic national pathology concerning drugs-both illegal and legal. -- Ethan Nadelmann, executive director, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation This book will interest college students of nearly any level. Recommended. CHOICE This is one of the most important contributions to the field of drug research of the last decade. It is authoritative in its rendering of the complexities of the drug interaction effects, yet written in a straightforward and available style. -- Troy Duster, New York University

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Fred Leavitt is professor of psychology at California State University, Hayward.

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