In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protectin

This book was the first serious work to address the question whether adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes.

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug

Responding to the controversy surrounding drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that the "therapeutic state" has overstepped its bounds in la

Challenges our understanding of health, risks, facts, and clinical trials [Payot]