A Doctor Discusses Narcotics and Drug Addiction

"If I'd known what that reefer was gonna do to me, I wouldn't have taken that first puff." "I never thought it could ever happen to me." "My friends didn't tell me." No, Jane -- or Jim -- too often your "friends" won't tell you. Perhaps they are still not aware of the consequences of that "first puff." Perhaps they don't quite know what is happening to them. But doctors are aware and will tell you -- if you let them. Yet it is not our purpose to tell you what you should or should not do. Only you can decide what is right. The facts, when they are known, speak forcefully enough. We are merely "laying it on the line" -- the hard, cold facts about dangerous drugs. After you have read this book, you may hesitate before deciding to follow "friends" down the drug-dependence path of no return. Should you, however, be persuaded to enter "drug-heaven," you may imagine yourself floating on Cloud Nine -- at first. But later you will be "hooked." You will know the torture of trying to obtain the stuff that "turns you on." Trying to "kick the habit" is no picnic either. But it is a picnic compared to staying on drugs. This is why. - Foreword.