Publisher's Synopsis
This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.
Chronologies showing the events that led to Prohibition and its repeal, of drug use through the ages, and of the political history of drug policy in the United States and worldwide
Six line graphs and eight tables conveying important information about pain relief as well as the War on Drugs
Includes a thorough bibliography of works cited in the book
