They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even may help to explain certain German military victories.

The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. In October 2009, a lecture I'd given a few months before was released as a pamphlet on the internet.The media today often confuses the public understanding of substance misuse by sensationalising stories which often frighten the less well informed. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs.

The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention.Dr Nutt does not claim to have the solution to everything - but he does have a large number of well-argued suggestions as to how things could be made much, much better. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.

This fourth edition of How Drugs Work equips readers with a set of clear concepts for matching the pharmacology to the diagnosis, and has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest knowledge and terminology. That said, it needs to be made clear that this is a book that, in many ways, lays out an argument for legaliszation (and even acceptance) of drugs. A must for all those who have teenage children and are worried about their potential alcohol or drug consumption. In a series of fascinating dialogs, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico.In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. His previous books on the history of drugs include Mescaline, High Society, and The Atmosphere of Heaven. Later the narrator learns that the house once belonged to his down-and-out accomplice and that the woman is his estranged wife.