Provides an overview of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of drugs including coffee, peyote, and heroin, and explains how this profitable enterprise has come to be more restricted through the centuries.

For pathologists, pharmacologists, drug abuse specialists and toxicologists, this book covers stimulant, opiate and steroid abuse. Each section includes a detailed discussion of how the drug came to be abused, how it is manufactured in clandestine laboratories, and how it is metabolized. (view table of contents)