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The Real Drug Abusers
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2004
Summary
While well over one million small-time drug users languish in overcrowded prisons because of nonviolent drug offenses, tens of thousands of others get rich from legal and illegal drugs. Drug company representatives persuade doctors to prescribe inferior products. Children as young as two are routinely given powerful drugs. Legal drugs, taken exactly as prescribed, are a leading cause of illness and death. Scientists beholden to drug companies fabricate and misrepresent data. This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Leavitt shows how and why American society must change its medical and policy approaches to drugs and re-orient medical practice to new ways of thinking.
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Edition
1/2004
Copyright Year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2517-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-46674-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
275
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 9
1 A Significant Portion of Medical Research Cannot Be Trusted No access Pages 10 - 36
2 Drug Companies Place Profits over Progress No access Pages 37 - 60
3 Medical Personnel Prescribe Incorrectly Too Often No access Pages 61 - 76
4 Human Subjects Have Often Been Treated Inhumanely No access Pages 77 - 86
5 U.S. Citizens Are Overmedicated with Psychiatric Drugs No access Pages 87 - 110
6 There Are Effective Alternatives to Psychiatric Drugs No access Pages 111 - 134
7 Widely Believed Misperceptions about Drug Addiction Do Great Harm No access Pages 135 - 144
8 Most Citizens Are Harmed Rather than Helped by the Drug Wars No access Pages 145 - 174
9 Many Drugs Are Dangerous No access Pages 175 - 184
10 Extensive Marketing of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Caffeine Causes Great Harm No access Pages 185 - 194
11 Many Individuals and Organizations Benefit from the Drug Wars No access Pages 195 - 208
12 Popular Programs for Combating Drug Abuse Are Unsuccessful, While Effective Programs Are Underused No access Pages 209 - 224
13 How Drugs Work No access Pages 225 - 234
14 Classification of Psychoactive Drugs No access Pages 235 - 243
