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Feb/102
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy
From Publishers Weekly
“The gap between scientific information and public information about drugs is growing hour by hour,” declare the authors of this thorough, popular guide to pharmaceutical and recreational chemicals. The public’s misinformation, they say, is only compounded by the fact that most descriptions of drugs’ benefits and risks are oversimplified, inaccurate and politicized. Marijuana, for example, is portrayed by some organizations as a wonder drug, and by others a…
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3:29 am on February 11th, 2010
In a time where literature on illegal substance is usually limited to propaganda either for or against drugs, their legalization, etc.., this book provides a refreshing, unbiased account. The knowledge it provides on a drug’s different effects on the body, the brain, one’s emotional well-being, and its addictive potential prove to be invaluable. This is not a crusade against the use of substances, but it does not seek to glorify their use. Anyone planning on experimenting with any drug should at least read this book first. It allows an individual to weigh the risks from a more educated point of view as it dispels myths and delivers what it says it will: the straight facts.
I would urge everyone involved in this area from policy makers to other students to buy this book and read it. I finished it in two days, and I’m a better-informed, more careful thinker because of it.
Don’t go to a party without it.
4:05 am on February 11th, 2010
As a college professor at Delgado in New Orleans, La., I found the book to be very informative and fact based for anyone interested in substance abuse and/or addictions. I am using this book as a text for a class entitled “Introduction to Substance Abuse”. The authors are clear, concise and discuss various drugs (including alcohol) at differing levels of use. This is an excellent text book for those preparing to enter the prevention and treatment fields. If you are expecting to read that “all drugs are bad”, and other typical statements, this book will not appease you. It has value for the professional interested in the field as well as the parent who may simply wish to be better informed on the current trends in the world of drugs and alcohol. Warren J. Perret,BSCW/BCSAC