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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 Substance is an essential reference in the ongoing debate about drug use.
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"Probably the most sensible and readable book informing drug policy ever written...as useful to lay readers as it is to researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This is 'drug education' at its best--an extraordinarily well-written book that belongs in high school libraries, on university reading lists across disciplines, on the desks of policy makers, and in treatment centers."
- Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW, professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
"An impressive blend of erudition, experience, and common sense...an invaluable resource."
- Marc A. Schuckit, M.D., distinguished professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California, San Diego; director, Alcohol Research Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System
"Experts in the addiction field will recognize wisdom in these pages."
- Keith Humphreys, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
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"Probably the most sensible and readable book informing drug policy ever written...as useful to lay readers as it is to researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This is 'drug education' at its best--an extraordinarily well-written book that belongs in high school libraries, on university reading lists across disciplines, on the desks of policy makers, and in treatment centers."
- Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW, professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
"An impressive blend of erudition, experience, and common sense...an invaluable resource."
- Marc A. Schuckit, M.D., distinguished professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California, San Diego; director, Alcohol Research Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System
"Experts in the addiction field will recognize wisdom in these pages."
- Keith Humphreys, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
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.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 031242583X
- ISBN 13 9780312425838
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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