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Drugs Without the Hot Air : Making Sense of Legal and Illegal Drugs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nutt, David.
- Series:
- Without the Hot Air Series
- Without the Hot Air Series ; v.5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug abuse.
- Drugs of abuse.
- Drug abuse--Government policy.
- Drug addicts--Psychology.
- Drug addicts.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Drugs without the hot air
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? What are we missing by banning medical research into magic mushrooms, LSD and cannabis? Can they be sources of valuable treatments? The second edition of Drugs without the hot air looks at the science to allow anyone to make rational decisions based on objective evidence, asking: What is addiction? Is there an addictive personality?; What is the role of cannabis in treating epilepsy?; How harmful is vaping?; How can psychedelics treat depression?; Where is the opioid crisis taking us?"
- Contents:
- Why I had to write this book
- Is ecstasy more dangerous than horse riding?
- How can we measure the harms done by drugs?
- Why do people take drugs?
- Cannabis, from the medicine of Queens to public enemy number one?
- Synthetic cannabindoids
- the problem of "spice"
- If alcohol were discovered today, would it be legal?
- "Meow meow"
- should mephedrone have been banned?
- What is addiction? Is there an "addictive personality"?
- Can addiction be cured?
- Cocaine
- from chewing to crack
- Why was smoking banned in public places?
- Vaping and snus
- to vape or not to vape?
- Prescription drugs; the US opiod crisis
- Can drugs improve physical and mental performance?
- Psychedelics, and their use in treating depression
- The War on Drugs, and drugs in war
- NPS
- novel pyschoactive substances
- The future of drugs
- What should I tell my kids about drugs?
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780857844965
- 0857844962
- 9780857844958
- 0857844954
- OCLC:
- 1389613665
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