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By a Working Party of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians. 291 pp., illustrated. London, Gaskell, 2000. £9.50. ISBN 1-901242-44-7.

The abuse of psychoactive substances is among the leading causes of disability and criminal activity in the world. Drug addiction is difficult to study. Most drug transactions are effected illegally, which limits the acquisition of accurate data on drug abuse. However, in 1997, the United Nations International Drug Control Programme estimated that illicit drug trade accounts for about 8 percent of all international trade and shows no worldwide trend toward a reduction. In the United Kingdom, where drug addiction is less of a problem than in the United States, there has been a steady increase in drug use in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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