Download e-book for kindle: Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused by Cynthia Kuhn

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By Cynthia Kuhn

ISBN-10: 0393344517

ISBN-13: 9780393344516

The fourth variation of the fundamental, available resource for realizing how medicines paintings and their results on physique and behavior.
A bestseller in its 3 prior variations, Buzzed is now revised and up to date with the latest discoveries approximately medications. It comprises new information regarding organic and behavioral alterations in dependancy, the prescription-drug abuse epidemic, certain drug results at the adolescent mind, and developments from man made cannabinoids to e-cigarettes. "Lively, hugely informative, independent, [and] thorough" (Addiction learn & Theory), this no-nonsense instruction manual surveys the main used and abused medications from caffeine to heroin to methamphetamine. In either quick-reference summaries and in-depth research, it experiences on how those medicinal drugs input the physique, how they control the mind, their temporary and long term results, the several "highs" they produce, and the situations within which they are often lethal. Neither a "just say no" treatise nor a "how-to" handbook, Buzzed is predicated at the conviction that individuals make greater judgements with actual info in hand. eight pages of colour illustrations

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