Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy

Harriman House Publishing, 2007. Black hard cover with silver titles on spine. Boards are clean and bright. Contents tight and clean. There are a few pages where previous markings in pencil have been rubbed out. Dust jacket has small tears at top rear and subsequent creasing to the top. Some general edge-wear.

Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong.
Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and contrary to received wisdom, heroin addiction most certainly IS a moral or spiritual problem.