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| Written by Booksmith | |
| Sunday, 20 January 2008 | |
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More to my taste, though, is Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by iconoclastic doc Theodore Dalrymple (£9.74 + pp – normal price:£14.99). Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong, he says. Heroin is not highly addictive; withdrawal from it is not medically serious; addicts do not become criminals to feed their habit; addicts do not need any medical assistance to stop taking heroin; and heroin addiction is more about mentality than biology. Browse a wide range of other titles in the Adam Smith Institute's bookshop.
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With my Christmas and New Year only just subsiding, I'm tempted to recommend this new title (published 28 January, but you can order it now on our online bookstore): 
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