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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... physicians believe this to be so . Other physicians and scientific researchers disagree , and the federal govern- ment stands adamant in opposing marijuana as a Schedule II drug . In 1992 , Robert Bonner , head of the Drug Enforcement ...
... physicians believe this to be so . Other physicians and scientific researchers disagree , and the federal govern- ment stands adamant in opposing marijuana as a Schedule II drug . In 1992 , Robert Bonner , head of the Drug Enforcement ...
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... physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs from their physicians , on prescription instead of directly from their local phar- macists . If a physician construed the ...
... physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs from their physicians , on prescription instead of directly from their local phar- macists . If a physician construed the ...
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Erich Goode. Phoenix House , 357 Physicians ; see Medical profession Physicians ' Association for AIDS , 235 Physician's Desk Reference , 301 Placebo effect , 30 Pleasure , 105 , 116 of cocaine use , 277-279 from marijuana , 218 Poison ...
Erich Goode. Phoenix House , 357 Physicians ; see Medical profession Physicians ' Association for AIDS , 235 Physician's Desk Reference , 301 Placebo effect , 30 Pleasure , 105 , 116 of cocaine use , 277-279 from marijuana , 218 Poison ...
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Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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