Romancing Opiates
Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
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Word Count
41,250 words, Guess
Page Count
165 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101594030871
- ISBN-139781594030871
- Goodreads117160
- Library of Congress Control Number2006004263
- OCLC Control Number64067540
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781594030871
- Open LibraryOL8875282M
Classifications
- LCCRC568.O6 D35 2006
- LCCRC568.O6D35 2006
Description
"Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and contrary to received wisdom, heroin addiction most certainly is a moral or spiritual problem." "Based on his ample experience as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a large general hospital in a British slum, Dr. Dalrymple argues that addiction to opiates is not an illness at all, and that doctors only make it worse. They deceive both the addicts and themselves by pretending that they have something to offer."--Jacket.
First Sentence
Man is the only creature capable of self-destruction, and only man decides in full consciousness to do what is bad, even fatal, for him.
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