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William Pryor, a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, became addicted to any number of mind altering drugs - culminating in street heroin - in the 1960s. He was near death several times, but against overwhelming odds, Pryor survived, and in 1975 was one of the first patients at the first American-style addiction treatment centre in Europe. He grew up in Cambridge in the stifling bosom of privilege, was sent to Eton, which he loathed, and rapidly desended into full-blown addiction travelling through Parisian garrets, Greek tavernas and Indian ashrams - and even Trinity College Cambridge. He became part of the sixties avant garde counterculture as a dadaist beat poet in the company of members of Pink Floyd. His experiences - and full recovery - have given him a unique insight into the world of hard drugs and addiction, and his clarity of vision as to the way forward for all those involved in the fall out of the war on drugs should be invaluable both to the victims and to those engaged in attempting to help them.

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The Survival of the Coolest makes essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why a War on Drugs and Just Say No can never work, and why some people become addicted to drugs while other do not. -- Dr Dorothy Rowe, author of Beyond Fear

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