Romancing Opiates - Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

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 (crugs are "creative" and "intense") in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi treatment. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He argues that withdrawal from opiates is not a serious medical condition but a relatively trivial experience, and says that criminality causes addiction far more often than addiction causes criminality.

General

Imprint:	Encounter Books,USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Theodore Dalrymple
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	146
Edition:	First Trade Paper Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-59403-225-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59403-225-4
Barcode:	9781594032257

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