The Book of Drugs: A Memoir

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As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. An excellent primer for people working in the drugs field, along with counsellors, teachers and suchlike.

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show.DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence. David Nutt is Edmond J Safra Professor of Neurosychopharmacology at Imperial College, London, but is best known as 'the scientist who was sacked' by the UK's Home Secretary because he compared the harms of horse-riding with taking ecstasy or cannabis. Nutt is both committed to rigorous, evidence-based policy and to clear, no-nonsense prose that makes complex subjects comprehensible. This information might assist us with collating statistics about sales and traffic patterns for our own use. HIs work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Doestoevsky's.

For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Leider zeigen diese auf, daß der ausgefochtene "war on drugs", der eigentlich die Bevölkerung schützen und Drogenbossen die Macht entziehen soll, genau das Gegenteil davon tut. Ella Botting The book is a semi-fictional novel/ memoir that reflects on Frey’s battle with addiction. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The media today often confuses the public understanding of substance misuse by sensationalising stories which often frighten the less well informed.