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Buzzed The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition
Author: Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D. Swartzwelder Scott, Ph.D. Wilson Wilkie, Leigh Heather Wilson, Jeremy Foster, Ph.D. Kuhn Cynthia, Wilkie Wilson, Scott Swartzwelder

The groundbreaking original edition of Buzzed has sold over 60,000 copies—and now the authors have revised and updated it to include the most recent discoveries about drugs. This scientifically accurate and easy-to-read handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and abused drugs, from alc...  more »ohol, caffeine, and nicotine to heroin, ecstasy, and Special K. In both quick-reference summaries and in-depth analysis, it reports on how these drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short-term and long-term effects, the kinds of "high" they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly. Neither a "just say no" treatise nor a "how-to" manual, Buzzed is based on the conviction that people make healthier decisions when they "just say know"—when they understand in straightforward language how our complex brains really work and why even small doses of various substances can have such powerful (and sometimes life-threatening) effects. 8 pages of color illustrations.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780393324938
ISBN-10: 0393324931
Publication Date: 10/2003
Pages: 320
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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Tiffany (TD30021) reviewed Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition on 9/21/2007

A really good guidebook to drugs and alcohol. I used when I taught a college course on substance abuse, as a reference. Also has a picture section in the middle.

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