Living with drugs

Author(s)

• Gossop, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Living with drugs

Michael Gossop

Arena , Ashgate, c1996

4th ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Providing a historical perspective, this work discusses the common drugs in use today from tea, coffee, alcohol and tobacco through cannabis and LSD to "hard" drugs like heroin. It states that the total effect of drug taking is an interaction between the drug and the personality of the user.

Table of Contents

• The chemistry of everyday life
• the effects of drugs
• the social context
• chemical comforts
• alcohol
• tobacco
• cannabis
• the hallucinogens
• archetypal drugs of abuse
• the control of drugs
• junkie myths
• doors in the wall.

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Details

• NCID: BA30050872
• ISBN:
  • 185742350X
• LCCN: 95080851
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England,Brookfield, Vt., USA
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 225 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC564.29
  • DC20 : 362.29
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Substance abuse -- Popular works