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Drug Abuse. Edited by Kelly Barth. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press Thomson Gale, 2007. 1 vol. 276 p. $36.20. ISBN 10: 0-7377-2007-7; 13: 978-0-7377-2007-7.

How to handle the issue of drug abuse is one facing students today from both a philosophical point of view and from a very personal point of view. They must decide whether to follow their friends down the path of trying drugs or to "Just Say 'No'. " Beginning with Freud's "Cocaine Has Therapeutic Potential," the first chapter covers "The Early Drug Abuse Debates." Further essays cover "The War on Drugs," "The Legalization Debate," "Approaches to Addiction and Treatment" and "Drug Abuse Today." The preface to each chapter sets the stage for the essays that follow. Appendixes include a nine-page chronology, two pages of organizations to contact and a five-page glossary.