Designer Drugs

By M.M. Kirsch

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896381099
• ISBN13: 9780896381094
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Compcare Pubns
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Delivers what it promises!

First of all, let me say I bought this book for 50 cents at my local public library. It's out of date in a cultural sense, the drugs of choice change, and new ways of making and marketing them have come about in the last 20 years. If that doesn't bother you, though, and what you want are facts about designer drugs (Synthetic Heroin, Crack, Meth, Ecstasy, and PCP), this book is amazing. (Would I be writing this review otherwise?) The interviews with people at all levels of the problem--users, dealers, chemists, DEA agents, cops, doctors--are very real and very interesting. Rarely will you find an author who will sit down with people engaged in an illegal activity and have the guts to ask the questions that nobody wants to ask, and get the answers that everyone should hear. Most of our culture and our kids only hear the law enforcement side of the story, and by the time they are of prime drug-using age, the cops are the ones they want to listen to the least! To hear users and chemists talking about the costs as well as the benefits (if you could call them that) of using drugs is an entirely different thing. I'm not a drug user, I'm not interested in being a cop, and I don't plan on making this a part of my life. But I do feel that I am a better informed person as a result of reading this book. And that is saying something.