Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies And The Addiction Bureaucracy

by Theodore Dalrymple

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Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies And The Addiction Bureaucracy

Synopsis

Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong.Not only is it wrong, but it is obviously wrong. Heroin isnot highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medicallyserious; addicts do not become criminals to feed theirhabit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stoptaking heroin; and contrary to received wisdom, heroinaddiction most certainly IS a moral or spiritual problem.Based on his experience as a prison doctor and as apsychiatrist in a large general hospital in Birmingham, Dr.Dalrymple argues that addiction to heroin is not an illnessat all, and that doctors only make it worse. They deceiveboth the addicts and themselves by pretending that they havesomething to offer. In this brilliant, entertaining andprovocative book, Theodore Dalrymple explains how and why aliterary tradition dating back to De Quincey and Coleridge,and continuing up to the deeply sociopathic WilliamBurroughs and beyond, has misled all Western societies forgenerations about the nature of heroin addiction.