David Nutt

Drugs without the hot air (eBook, ePUB)

Making sense of legal and illegal drugs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? What are we missing by banning medical research into magic mushrooms, LSD and cannabis? Can they be sources of valuable treatments? The second edition of Drugs without the hot air looks at the science to allow anyone to make rational decisions based on objective evidence, asking: *What is addiction? Is there an addictive personality? *What is the role of cannabis in treating epilepsy? *How harmful is vaping? *How can psychedelics treat depression? *Where is the opioid crisis taking us?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857844958
• Artikelnr.: 58429235

Autorenporträt

David Nutt is a psychiatrist, founding chair of DrugScience and the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology in Imperial College London. The Times Eureka science magazine voted him one of the 100 most important figures in British Science, and the science journal Nature and Sense about Science awarded him the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. David hosts The Drug Science Podcast, and his writing has featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian, the Lancet and BBC Science Focus.

David is a former President of: the European Brain Council; the British Association of Psychopharmacology; the British Neuroscience Association; and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and he holds visiting Professorships at the Open University and University of Maastricht. In 2016 the University of Bath awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter endnotes
URLs and links
Acknowledgements
Why I had to write this book
Is ecstasy more dangerous than horse riding?
How can we measure the harms done by drugs?
Why do people take drugs?
Cannabis, from the medicine of queens to public enemy number one?
Synthetic cannabinoids - the problem of "spice"
If alcohol were discovered today, would it be legal?
"Meow meow" - should mephedrone have been banned?
What is addiction? Is there an "addictive personality"?
Can addiction be cured?
Cocaine - from chewing to crack
Why was smoking banned in public places?
Vaping and snus - to vape or not to vape?
Prescription drugs; the US opioid crisis
Can drugs improve physical and mental performance?
Psychedelics, and their use in treating depression
The War on Drugs, and drugs in war
NPS - novel psychoactive substances
The future of drugs
What should I tell my kids about drugs?
Useful websites
URLs referenced in the text
Index