Posted by boB on April 3, 2000, at 0:16:06
Drugs are good. Let's take drugs and be happy.
Seriously though, can anybody steer me toward information
on the psychopharmacology of commonly used illegal drugs.
I have read several of the "Drugs and Behaviour 101" texts,
which are required reading for most college sophmores, and
find some illegal drugs listed among the groups of drugs included
on the Dr. Bob site, but I am looking for more detailed studies.
It is my hunch that we can explain, in pscyhopharmaceutical terms,
what people are unwittingly trying to do to themselves with
"street drugs" - boost serotonin? boost norepenephrine?
Treat ADD?I would like to get beyond moralistic and legalistic approaches,
and beyond literature designed primarily to persuade against illegal drug
use and find out why people are so attracted to these outlawed
pharmaceuticals.My bias? I think criminal attitudes toward violence, promiscuous sexuality
and gang affiliation, passed along by a growing prison population are doing
as much or more harm to society as illegal drugs such as those taken
by Gov. George Bush (but not since his dad was president) and by
Pres. Clinton (who didn't inhale).
poster:boB
thread:28725
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