Drugs - without the hot air : minimizing the harms of legal and illegal drugs /
David Nutt.
- Cambridge : UIT Cambridge, c2012.
- xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
David Nutt explains in depth how the common drugs - from heroin and cocaine to alcohol and tobacco - affect us, and why we take them. Then, working from the facts, he recommends how society ought to address drugs and drug-taking, to minimise the harms at every level.