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Drugs of Abuse

Their Genetic and Other Chronic Nonpsychiatric Hazards

Drugs of Abuse( )
Editor: Epstein, Samuel S.
As told to: Lederberg, Joshua
Legator, Marvin S.
Carroll, Eleanor E.
Blaine, Jack D.
ISBN:978-0-262-55045-1
Publication Date:Feb 2003
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $89.00
Book Description:

Discusses the possible hazards of cancer, birth defects, and genetic changes that might result from indiscriminate use of so-called street drugs, therapeutic drugs of common consumption, or by the interaction of any number of drugs with each other or with environmental pollutants such as pesticides and food additives.

Book Details
Pages:228
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Pharmacology
Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):21.7 x 27.8 x 1.662 cm
Book Weight:0.596 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Samuel Stanley Epstein was born in Middlesbrough, England on April 13, 1926. He received a bachelor's degree in physiology and medical degrees from the University of London. After immigrating to the United States in 1960, he conducted research at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation before joining the faculty of Case Western University Medical School in 1971. He taught at the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine and School of Public Health at the University of Illinois from 1976 until 1999.

He focused his career on preventing cancer. He helped draft the federal Toxic Substances Control and Resource Conservation Recovery Acts in the mid-1970s. He wrote several books including The Politics of Cancer. He received the Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for Humanitarianism in 2005. He died of cardiac arrest on March 18, 2018 at the age of 91.

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