Drugs Without the Hot Air

The First edition was the Winner of the Transmission Prize for the Communication of Ideas 2014. This second edition of expert drug scientist David Nutt's brilliant book examines the facts about both legal and illegal drugs. Including up-to-date case studies and information about recent developments, he uses straightforward language to explore the science of what drugs are, how they work, why people take them and their effects.

David Nutt is a psychiatrist, the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology in Imperial College London and chair of DrugScience. The Times Eureka science magazine voted him one of the 100 most important figures in British Science.

The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? What are we missing by banning medical research into magic mushrooms, LSD and cannabis? Can they be sources of valuable treatments? The second edition of Drugs without the hot air looks at the science to allow anyone to make rational decisions based on objective evidence, asking: What is addiction? Is there an addictive personality? What is the role of cannabis in treating epilepsy? How harmful is vaping? How can psychedelics treat depression? *Where is the opioid crisis taking us?

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