Volume 22, Number 17 · October 30, 1975
Unsafe at Any Speed
By Norman E. Zinberg
Cocaine Papers by Sigmund Freud
edited and with an introduction by Robert Byck MD, notes by Anna Freud
New American Library/Meridian, 402 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects
by Richard Ashley
St. Martin's, 232 pp., $7.95
The Speed Culture: Amphetamine Use and Abuse in America
by Lester Grinspoon MD, by Peter Hedblom
Harvard University Press, 340 pp., $15.00
It is refreshing to have three new books which demonstrate, in their separate ways, how much we have yet to learn about drugs. The millions of words published about cocaine and amphetamines during the last twelve years suggest that most people, including health professionals, cling to familiar myths and stereotypes that cover up the contradictory facts.
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