Publisher's Synopsis
This series aims to help teenagers make up their minds on some of the most controversial issues facing people around the world today. The arguments on all sides of each issue are illustrated using quotations taken from a variety of different sources: government statistics, independent experts, public figures and people with personal experience of the subject being treated. The readers are guided through the various arguments by a running narrative that introduces the quotations and their sources and puts them into context. The latest facts and statistics on each subject are featured in special information boxes throughout the books. Questions at the end of each chapter focus the reader's attention on the key areas of debate.;In this book quotations highlight medical, political and personal views on the problems of drug addiction for individuals and for society as a whole. The author begins with a brief outline of drug use in the past and goes on to explain how drugs work. In the following chapters the author has selected extracts concerning the social and legal controversy surrounding drugs - both those which are legally available and those that are banned: alcohol, tobacco, solvents, cannabis, cocaine and heroin. Issues the reader is asked to consider include: how addictive is cannabis? It raises a lot of questions over drug use, introducing the reader to the wide variety of problems relating to drugs and to the measures that are being put formard to solve them.;This book also has a list of addresses of helpful organizations.
