In this second edition, the author expands and updates his study of
the true reasons for drug use. Current attitudes towards drug
misuse in the media, government, and even treatment centres, often
exaggerate the pharmacological power of drugs. Their coercive
influence is widely believed to be so great that to experiment with
a drug is tantamount to addiction. The author argues that such
beliefs are largely inaccurate and harmful. Research shows that
explanations for drug use vary according to circumstances. Drugs
users may explain that they have lost their willpower and capacity
for personal decision-making, because this is the explanation
expected of them, but most actually use drugs because they want to
and because they see no good reason for giving them up. Addicted
behaviour is therefore a form of learned helplessness, not an
effect caused by narcotic intake.
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