Sunday, January 21, 2007

Addicted to myths about opiates / The Australian, 20 January
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21086185-28737,00.html
Theodore Dalrymple
"Almost everything you think you know about heroin addiction is wrong
Edited extract from Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, by Theodore Dalrymple, published by Encounter Books. Dalrymple has worked as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a general hospital in a British slum."