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Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
Theodore Dalrymple
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Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
Theodore Dalrymple
Based on his experience as a prison doctor and as a psychiatrist in a large general hospital in Birmingham, the author argues that addiction to heroin is not an illness at all, and that doctors only make it worse. They deceive both the addicts and themselves by pretending that they have something to offer.
146 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 27, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9781905641598 |
| Publishers | Harriman House Publishing |
| Pages | 146 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 242 × 17 mm · 386 g |
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