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By John C.M. Brust. 289 pp. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993. $75. ISBN 0-7506-9005-4.

This book was written on the basis of the premises that "neurologists would welcome a book on drug abuse" and "that most biomedical aspects of drug abuse are in fact neurological." Although it may not be politically astute for a psychiatrist to comment on the veracity of either of these assumptions, it is fair to say that this is a practical and thoughtful single-author book on drug abuse written in a terse and easy-to-digest style.

The author admits that the impetus for the book came from preparing a chapter on drug dependence for Clinical Neurology (New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1955). Accordingly, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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