Romancing the Opiates

[marycatelli]

Romancing the Opiates:  Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple

A rather grim book.  Dalrymple worked for years as a prison doctor and at a hospital in some of the worst slums in England.  So he knows whereof he speaks.

Comments

[thoth_moon]

I read one of his other books, Our Culture, What's Left of It and this one here's definitely on my to-read list (I wanna read it back to back to back with De Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater and Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, haha). Dalrymple's definitely conservative, on occasion too much for my personal tastes--however, reading about his experiences, you can totally see why he thinks the way he does and it's more or less totally justified. He's my favorite guy when society's pissing me off and I feel like being a crank ^^

[marycatelli]

I've read a number of his, too.

[moonshadow]

Interesting review, thanks.

[marycatelli]

Glad you like it.