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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent analysis of the drug problem, October 15, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach (Hardcover)
This book provides a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the drug problem. It has chapters on American drug history, policy, the legalization issue, drugs and creativity, treatment, and prevention. There are also appendixes containing a time line of significant events over 10,000 years of human drug taking and a resource and referral guide.
The book is particularly valuable because, unlike other books that are highly polemical, the author presents all sides of an issue before making recommendations. This allows the reader more information from which to base his or her opinion on a specific topic. The author also brings the insights of general semantics, a scientific problem-solving approach, to flesh out the intricacies of this highly complex social predicament.
All in all this book offers an immensely readable and unique look at an important problem in American society. Highly recommended.
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