Drugs - Sarah Lennard-Brown

Tobacco, alcohol and caffeine; solvents and nitrates; anabolic steroids; tranquillizers and sedatives; cannabis; ecstasy; cocaine and the stimulants; LSD and the hallucinogens; heroin and the opiates. This book presents the facts about what these drugs are, how they work and their differing effect. It also explores the issues surrounding each drug today.

Sarah Lennard-Brown has spent many years as a nurse, counsellor and health educator. She now works as a writer and magazine editor.

the 'Health Issues' series marks an important step in the development of presenting 'straight-talking, fact-based information books'...The series as a whole helps plug a gap in the market...
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