Matters of Substance : Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User,9780312425838

Matters of Substance : Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780312425838
ISBN10: 031242583X
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2006-10-17
Publisher(s): Picador
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Summary

This book explores the pervasive influence of drugs around the world--from marijuana to nicotine, caffeine, opiates, and other licit and illicit substances. It positions the various uses and abuses of drugs within the web of ideas held worldwide about personal freedom, pleasure, and globalization. Authoritative and wide ranging,Matters of Substanceis an essential reference in the ongoing debate about drug use.

Author Biography

Griffith Edwards is emeritus professor of addiction behavior at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and commissioning editor of the journal Addiction. He has advised the U.S. and U.K. governments, as well as the World Health Organization. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xii
Note xiii
Introduction: Understanding Drugs xv
Part One: Licit Drugs
1 On the Drink
3(13)
2 Tobacco
16(16)
3 Little Comforters
32(15)
4 Deadly Vapours
47(9)
5 All Sorts
56(16)
6 Licit Drugs and the Man from Mars
72(5)
Part Two: Opiates
7 Opiates Introduced
77(6)
8 Opium in China
83(20)
9 Opiates: a Tale of Two Nations
103(19)
10 The Vietnam War
122(10)
11 Opiates: the Wide Experience
132(11)
Part Three: Other Drugs Outside the Law
12 Cannabis
143(21)
13 Cocaine
164(21)
14 Amphetamines etc.
185(9)
15 Psychedelics
194(16)
16 Dance to the Music of Drugs
210(13)
17 The Martian Calls Again
223(6)
Part Four: What To Do About Drugs?
18 One Helluva Problem
229(11)
19 The Legalization Debate
240(16)
20 Better Deals
256(22)
Postscript 278(2)
Sources and Further Reading 280(22)
Index 302

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