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Summary: Good Job
Review: Its really hard to find a good introduction to the effects of abused drugs on the bookshelf. They're either too broad and general and more adsorbed in stastics and rhetoric then scientific details. This book is scientific enough yet comprehensible to a general audience. Superb Job.
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Summary: You can buy better
Review: the Psychedelics Encyclopedia is so much better than this book, even though this book covers psychoactive substances other than Psychedelics, I find drug war propoganda in here. But what are they charging like ($) so in that case i suppose you might as well buy this.
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Summary: good basic book
Review: This is a great book to learn the basics of psychoactive substances. However you cannot hear about the basics and think you know everything, you must learn from experience. I have found minor misinformation in this book and feel that it is slightly biased.
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Summary: BUZZED takes much of the mystery out of how drugs work!
Review: Understanding how drugs and alcohol work on the human body is an ongoing mystery for many people, whether citizens, students, or professionals working with drug/alcohol issues. Many traditional approaches include moralistic perspectives which, while helpful for some purposes, are not part of the human body's processing of these substances! BUZZED provides the facts, stripped of their moral and legal connotations, about how drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances work on the human body. BUZZED is refreshing in that it explains, with the best understanding that we have today, HOW drugs work on the body, and WHY they work the way they do. Refreshingly, BUZZED provides this information in a way which helps the reader understand these facts. The book provides an understanding of why people generally feel the way they do when using various substances, and provides information about the various dangers that may be associated. I believe the book will be helpful for people of all ages and all walks of life. While many of the biochemical principles and details underlying substance use and abuse are extremely complex, BUZZED takes these and makes them understandable. I find it particularly helpful to see this emphasis upon the brain chemistry, and how drugs are linked to the neurotransmitters that we are increasingly coming to understand and respect. My only critique of the book is that I wish it included references for further reading and more detailed elaboration. I anticipate that drug and alcohol education approaches, such as those emphasized in BUZZED, will come to represent the best approaches to helping people, particularly young people, understand and respect these substances to a greater degree. I think it provides great promise for future changes in how we understand drugs and alcohol, and how we address this important issue as the United States and as a world culture. David Anderson, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Center for the Advancement of Public Health, George Mason University - Fairfax, VA
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Summary: An educational book much needed at this time in our country
Review: While growing up my parents never taught me much about drugs and their effects. I was always told that drugs are bad and to stay away from them. That may have been easy for them to do, but I think it's hard for kids today to do so. Drugs are everywhere. All over the streets, in schools, homes, even on TV. Because I was not properly informed of the effects and consequences of these substances, I chose to experiment with almost any drug I crossed. This book is right on and the closest thing to actual experimentation I have found. It does not condemn drugs, nor does it try to make them sound appealing. It merely states the facts. I highly recommend, if you are a parent, that you read this and then to pass it on to your children.
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