Junk Medicine  -  Theodore Dalrymple

Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

KORTE INHOUD

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 experience as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a large general hospital in Birmingham, D...
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2007 Uitgever: Harriman House Publishing 146 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1905641591 ISBN-13: 9781905641598