Romancing Opiates
Subtitle: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: April 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781594030871
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Psychopathology - Addiction; Drug Addiction (Psychiatric Aspects); Self-Help; Psychology; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Recovery; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Medicine in literature; History; Opioid-Related Disorders; Opium abuse
First sentence: Man is the only creature capable of self-destruction, and only man decides in full consciousness to do what is bad, even fatal, for him.
Description: "Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and contrary to received wisdom, heroin addiction most certainly is a moral or spiritual problem." "Based on his ample experience as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a large general hospital in a British slum, Dr. Dalrymple argues that addiction to opiates is not an illness at all, and that doctors only make it worse. They deceive both the addicts and themselves by pretending that they have something to offer."--Jacket.