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Edited by Roy Porter and Mikulá Teich. 227 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. $49.95. ISBN 0-521-43163-8.

The word "drug," in its double sense of therapeutic agent and substance of abuse, has an ancient and tortuous heritage stemming from social attitudes and scientific knowledge in other eras and places. The demarcation between use and abuse has been debated contentiously, and the debate continues today. The editors of this wide-ranging book believe that those concerned with current drug policy may profit from pondering the past. What "type of society," they ask, "engenders specific ideas and policies about drug matters, how [do] they come into being, are applied and change in time?" This "unifying thread" links the 11 disparate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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