| #313362 in Books | 2008-08-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.70 x.60 x5.90l,.60 | File type: PDF | 160 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Long View on Opiates|By Gregory Davidson|Great medical insight on opioid use and abuse, as well as detailed consideration of the initial effects of government policy, and the likely long-term consequences of current trends in litigation and societal attitudes.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A clear eyed look at addiction.About the Author|Theodore Dalrymple is a psychiatrist and prison doctor who believes that everything most people know about opiate addiction.
Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths (drugs are creative and intense) in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatme...
You easily download any file type for your device.Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy | Theodore Dalrymple. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
