BLUM, KENNETH

Handbook of Abusable Drugs

New York, NY: Gardner Press, Inc, 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0898760364. This book is in Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The Spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are generally clean, but there is a section of about 25 pages that have highlighting. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spot of rubbing and wrinkling. "Blum collaborated on a study that found a correlation between an allele in the dopamine D2 Receptor and alcoholism in a post-mortem study of brain tissue from 35 alcoholics and 35 non-alcoholics. Blum believed his work to be of broader scope, calling this gene a "reward gene" which covers other addictive behaviors including drug addiction, smoking, overeating, and pathological gambling. " (from Wikipedia). Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 44201

Catalogue: Drugs and Alcohol

Keywords: 0898760364 Drugs And Alcohol Kenneth Blum Abusing Drugs Drug Abuse Pharmacology

CUSKEY, WALTER, ARNOLD WILLIAM KLEIN, AND WILLIAM KRASNER

Drug-Trip Abroad American Drug-Refugees in Amsterdam and London

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0812210417. This is a trade paperback book with heavy cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good- condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The book covers have noticeably toning to the white portions. There is some lighe bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There are a couple of small spots of dirt. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a thin orange ink mark on the bottom edge of the text block. The half title page has a previous owner's ink stamped name and address and a hand inked date. "To refer to the epidemiology of opiate-addiction is not a figure of speech or a rationalization for the use of special techniques but a reflection of a literal, burgeoning reality: opiate-addiction and other forms of severe drug-abuse constitute an epidemic, a scourge, and even, in the slums of our big cities, a plague.". Very Good- .

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Book number: 33935

Catalogue: Drugs and Alcohol

Keywords: 0812210417 Drugs And Alcohol Walter Cuskey Arnold William Klein William Krasner Addictions Opiates And Opioids Opiate Addiction Medicine Drugs and Alcohol

TAYLOR, NORMAN

Narcotics: Nature's Dangerous Gifts a Revised Edition of "Flight from Reality"

New York: Dell / Laurel Leaf Books, 1966. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. This is a First Laurel leaf printing. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The white book covers have generalized light toning. The text pages are clean and bright, but have noticeable toning. "The term narcotic originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45841

Catalogue: Drugs and Alcohol

Keywords: Drugs And Narcotics Norman Taylor Botany Practices And Customs Weed Control Marijuana

THORP, RAYMOND

Viper - the Confessions of a Drug Addict

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1956. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. . Very Good+ .

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Book number: 43863

Catalogue: Drugs and Alcohol

Keywords: Drugs And Alcohol Raymond Thorp Viper Addictions Addicts