Title: Drugs : a very short introduction /
Authors: Iversen, Leslie L.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Drugs Popular works.; Pharmacology Popular works; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Drugs.; Drug abuse
Abstract: A brief introduction to drugs that provides information on legal, prescription, and illegal drugs, explaining what they are, how they work, and how medicines are developed and tested.
Contents: 1. History -- 2. How drugs work -- 3. Drugs as medicines -- 4. Recreational drugs -- 5. Making new medicines -- 6. Twentieth-century and beyond -- Further reading