Matters of Substance: Drugs---and Why Everyone's a User - Softcover

Edwards, Griffith

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9780312425838: Matters of Substance: Drugs---and Why Everyone's a User

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031242583X ISBN 13: 9780312425838

Publisher: Picador USA, 2006

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Presented by an editor of the journal Addiction, an analysis of the ways in which drugs are controlled throughout the world evaluates drug use and abuse in a societal context that considers contemporary beliefs about personal freedom, pleasure, and globalization. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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'Griffith Edwards's wide ranging account of the past and future of drug policy is filled with surprising facts' -- The Telegraph, June 26, 2004

About the Author:

Griffith Edwards is emeritus professor of addiction behavior at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and commissioning editor of the journal Addiction. He has advised the U.S. and U.K. governments, as well as the World Health Organization. He lives in England.

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