Overview
While well over one million small-time drug users languish in overcrowded prisons because of non-violent drug offenses, tens of thousands of others get rich from legal and illegal drugs. Drug company representative persuade doctors to prescribe inferior products. Children as young as two are routinely given powerful drugs. Legal drugs, taken exactly as prescribed are a leading cause of illness and death. Scientists beholden to drug companies fabricate and misrepresent data. This book documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Leavitt shows how and why American society must change its medical and policy approaches to drugs and re-orient medical practise to new ways of thinking.
Full Product Details
Author: Fred Leavitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9780742525177
ISBN 10: 0742525171
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 16 May 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
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
Author Information
Fred Leavitt is professor of psychology at California State University, Hayward.
