Drugs in American SocietyThis edition probes the drug phenomenon in all its social, cultural and legal complexity. It covers the full range of psychoactive drug use, from legal medical and prescription use to criminal, recreational use, from casual use to addiction. |
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... heroin users , most of which were daily users with high - cost heroin habits . Three - fifths of the violent predators in this study ( those who had committed robbery and assault ) were heroin users and a third were high - cost daily heroin ...
... heroin users , most of which were daily users with high - cost heroin habits . Three - fifths of the violent predators in this study ( those who had committed robbery and assault ) were heroin users and a third were high - cost daily heroin ...
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... heroin causes respiratory paralysis , resulting in oxygen starvation of the brain . THE USE AND ABUSE OF NARCOTICS IN AMERICA TODAY It is remarkable that heroin is such a well - known and almost universally dreaded drug , since it ...
... heroin causes respiratory paralysis , resulting in oxygen starvation of the brain . THE USE AND ABUSE OF NARCOTICS IN AMERICA TODAY It is remarkable that heroin is such a well - known and almost universally dreaded drug , since it ...
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... heroin was . In its 1994 National Household Survey , the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) estimated that , while 2.1 million Americans had used heroin at least once during their lives , 12.6 million ( 6 percent of the ...
... heroin was . In its 1994 National Household Survey , the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) estimated that , while 2.1 million Americans had used heroin at least once during their lives , 12.6 million ( 6 percent of the ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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