The great brain robbery - Softcover

Tom Scott; Trevor Grice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473038374 ISBN 13: 9780473038373

Publisher: Publishing Trust, 1996

Synopsis

A guide for parents, families, counsellors, schools and policy-makers alike which addresses the problems that parents and their teenage children are likely to encounter when the question of drug use arises. The authors explain in simple terms how the brain works and give space to ordinary people who have consented to tell their own stories about the hazards and tragedies of drug use. The latter part of the book provides itemized information about all the most common drugs from alcohol to heroin. In alphabetical order, this listing can be used as a ready-reference guide to the origins, ingredients, effects and dangers of drugs. It also explains in detail how nerve impulses are generated, transmitted and interferred with in the brain.

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Review

This is a sensible, readable, often witty but hard-hitting book about drugs. ( School Librarian)

About the Author

Tom Scott has for many years written and illustrated a satirical column on Parliament for the NZ Listener. In 1987 he became editorial cartoonist for The Evening Post and in 1995 resumed his Listener column. Several anthologies of his work have been published and he has won awards for journalism.Trevor Grice became the national director of the Life Education Trust in 1987, a position he still holds. He has lectured extensively in Australia and the USA. In New Zealand he is in constant demand as a drug counsellor, industry advisor and speaker to high-school students and parent groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publishing Trust
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0473038374
• ISBN 13: 9780473038373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112