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Edited by Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, and Andrew Sherratt. 244 pp. New York, Routledge, 1995. $49.95. ISBN 0-415-09039-3.

At a time when the "war on drugs" is still a losing battle, powerful lobbies and legislative forces resist the classification of nicotine-delivery systems (cigarettes) as drugs, and melatonin can escape the scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration by being billed as a food additive, it behooves physicians to learn as much as they can about psychoactive substances.

This book consists of 10 chapters, each by a different author. Six of the authors are historians, and four are anthropologist-historians. Five of the 10 chapters are based on papers presented at a conference organized by the Past and Present Society . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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