Addiction & Recovery For Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book, 77,) (Paperback)

~ David Brizer (Author), MD Ricardo Castaneda (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing; 1 edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0863161987
• ISBN-13: 978-0863161988
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,348,434 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Drug education comic book scores - almost, October 25, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews

At first glance, Addiction & Recovery for Beginners might look like just one more hysterical narcophobic piece of drug war propaganda. However, by looking beyond the somewhat grotesque caricatures, one finds a refreshingly honest effort at taking a balanced look at all types of addictive behavior, with legal drugs getting just as rough treatment as the illegal ones. So it was an incredible dissapointment for an informed lay-person like myself to find at least one glaring inaccuracy in a book written by professionals. According to the book "Psilocybin is derived from the Amanita muscara plant, or 'magic mushroom'". Yes, the Amanita Muscara, or fly-agaric mushroom is psychoactive, but it does NOT contain the hallucinogen psilocybin, which comes from completely different fungi (at least according to Dr. Andrew Weil's From Chocolate to Morphine - Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs). Hopefully this will be corrected in any subsequent editions, and they might also take another look at the quotation from Sir William Osler on page 41. The quotation itself is probably accurate, but his birth and death years (1949-1919) suggest that someone must have been in a seriously altered state.