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The real drug abusers /
This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The pharmaceutical/medical complex: A significant portion of medical research cannot be trusted
- Drug companies too often place profits over progress
- Medical personnel prescribe incorrectly too often
- Human subjects have often been treated inhumanely
- Drugs in psychiatry: U.S. citizens are overmedicated with psychiatric drugs, which are considerably less successful than advocates claim
- There are many effective alternatives to psychiatric drugs
- The wars on drugs: widely believed but incorrect notions about drug addiction do great harm
- Most citizens are harmed rather than helped by the drug wars
- Many drugs are dangerous
- Extensive marketing of three legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine) causes great harm, especially to children
- Many individuals and organizations benefit from the drug wars
- Popular prevention and treatment programs for drug abuse have poor success rates, while effective (and much less expensive programs) are underused
- Appendix: Introduction to pharmacology
- How drugs work
- Classification of psychoactive drugs
- Variability.