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The Real Drug Abusers
While well over one million small-time drug users languish in overcrowded prisons because of nonviolent drug offenses, tens of thousands of others get rich from legal and illegal drugs. Drug company representatives persuade doctors to prescribe inferior products. Children as young as two are routinely given powerful drugs. Legal drugs, taken exactly as prescribed, are a leading cause of illness and death. Scientists beholden to drug companies fabricate and misrepresent data.
This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Leavitt shows how and why American society must change its medical and policy approaches to drugs and re-orient medical practice to new ways of thinking.
This eye-opening book richly documents disturbing trends in Western medicine and urges readers toward a broader understanding of drug use and abuse. Leavitt shows how and why American society must change its medical and policy approaches to drugs and re-orient medical practice to new ways of thinking.
284 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2003
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About the author
Fred Leavitt
18 booksFred Levitt is a professor of Psychology at California State University, East Bay.
Prof. Fred Leavitt
"I received my BA from Eastern New Mexico University, my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and a Post-doctoral fellowship to study mammalian sexual behavior at UC-Berkeley. My teaching has included stops as a visiting professor at several U.S. universities and in Canada, Kenya, New Zealand, England, Turkey, Singapore, and Holland. I’ve lectured to medical doctors for their continuing medical education credits about expectation effects, alternatives to psychiatric drugs, and medical decision-making; and to football coaches about steroids and other forms of drug abuse. Some of my books are Drugs and Behavior, The REAL drug Abusers, and Evaluating Scientific Research, Evaluating Scientific Researchi, Improving Medical Outcomes, An Even Greater Scandal, and The Billionaire.s Game.
In my spare time I enjoy trying to grow fruits and vegetables (not very successfully-- grew up in Brooklyn, didn’t see a tree until I was 20), trying to solve cryptic crossword puzzles, and playing basketball with a bunch of other over-the-hill players."
Prof. Fred Leavitt
"I received my BA from Eastern New Mexico University, my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and a Post-doctoral fellowship to study mammalian sexual behavior at UC-Berkeley. My teaching has included stops as a visiting professor at several U.S. universities and in Canada, Kenya, New Zealand, England, Turkey, Singapore, and Holland. I’ve lectured to medical doctors for their continuing medical education credits about expectation effects, alternatives to psychiatric drugs, and medical decision-making; and to football coaches about steroids and other forms of drug abuse. Some of my books are Drugs and Behavior, The REAL drug Abusers, and Evaluating Scientific Research, Evaluating Scientific Researchi, Improving Medical Outcomes, An Even Greater Scandal, and The Billionaire.s Game.
In my spare time I enjoy trying to grow fruits and vegetables (not very successfully-- grew up in Brooklyn, didn’t see a tree until I was 20), trying to solve cryptic crossword puzzles, and playing basketball with a bunch of other over-the-hill players."
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July 27, 2023
Would like to give this 10 stars
if I could.
If only everybody in the country
would read this book.
Incredibly well written and well
researched. It truly amazes me that
this book is not better known.
The author wrote it in a somewhat
academic and not in a popular style.
Perhaps that is why this book is not better
known and does not have more ratings.
if I could.
If only everybody in the country
would read this book.
Incredibly well written and well
researched. It truly amazes me that
this book is not better known.
The author wrote it in a somewhat
academic and not in a popular style.
Perhaps that is why this book is not better
known and does not have more ratings.
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