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Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs: 3
Author(s): David Nutt (Author)
- Publisher: UIT Cambridge LTD
- Publication Date: 31 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906860165
- ISBN-13: 9781906860165
Book Description
The science of what drugs are and how they work lets us quantify and compare the harms caused by different drugs. With this information we can radically transform drugs law, and hugely reduce crime and all the other social, economic and health harms currently caused by drugs. The book is written in plain English. It is intended for people who take drugs, and those dealing with the harms drugs cause: parents, teachers, doctors, politicians, social workers and law enforcement agencies.
– It explains what drugs are, how they work, and how people become addicted.
– How harmful are alcohol and tobacco compared to illegal drugs?
– Does the ‘War on Drugs’ cause more harm than good? How does it affect legitimate scientific research into potentially valuable therapies?
– What should you tell your children about drugs, and at what age?
Editorial Reviews
Review
There’s an inherent danger in any sector of education: if the teachings fail to measure up to the truth, then we’ll be paving the way for a deep distrust and a greater apathy. With this in mind, it is of tremendous enthusiasm that we welcome Professor Nutt’s book: Drugs – Without the Hot Air –Jason Reed- Huffington Post
Nutt is both committed to rigorous, evidence-based policy and to clear, no-nonsense prose that makes complex subjects comprehensible. […] a book that everyone should read. –Cory Doctorow Boing Boing
About the Author
David is a former President of: the European Brain Council; the British Association of Psychopharmacology; the British Neuroscience Association; and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and he holds visiting Professorships at the Open University and University of Maastricht. In 2016 the University of Bath awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws.
