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The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGrandpre.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
DeGrandpre, Richard J.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Drug utilization--United States.
Drug utilization.
Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Drugs--Social aspects--United States.
Drugs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Richard DeGrandpre, author of Ritalin Nation, targets the illogic underlying U.S. drug policy and Americans' limited understanding of what drugs are and how they work.
Contents:
Mama Coca
Cult of the SSRI
The emperor's new smokes
The placebo text
America's domestic drug affair
War
The drug reward
Possessed by the stimulus
Ideology.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-286) and index.
ISBN:
9786613022455
9781283022453
1283022451
9780822388197
0822388197
OCLC:
262341485

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