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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... patients if it were legal ; more than half ( 54 percent ) felt that marijuana should be available by prescription ; and a remarkable 44 percent said that they had in fact rec- ommended the drug to a patient of theirs , even though it is ...
... patients if it were legal ; more than half ( 54 percent ) felt that marijuana should be available by prescription ; and a remarkable 44 percent said that they had in fact rec- ommended the drug to a patient of theirs , even though it is ...
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... patients dropped every year after that until the late 1980s ; today , there are roughly 100,000 resident patients in public - funded mental hospitals on any given day . It is possible that this is an " irreducible minimum , ” that is ...
... patients dropped every year after that until the late 1980s ; today , there are roughly 100,000 resident patients in public - funded mental hospitals on any given day . It is possible that this is an " irreducible minimum , ” that is ...
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... patients now ? Today , overwhelmingly , mental patients are being administered antipsychotic drugs , mainly phenothiazines . Antipsychotic drugs do not produce a " high " and are not used recreationally ; there is no street usage of the ...
... patients now ? Today , overwhelmingly , mental patients are being administered antipsychotic drugs , mainly phenothiazines . Antipsychotic drugs do not produce a " high " and are not used recreationally ; there is no street usage of the ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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