Getting high

Charles Nicholl

  • The Global Connection: The Crisis of Drug Addiction by Ben Whitaker
    Cape, 384 pp, £15.00, March 1987, ISBN 0 224 02224 5

You don’t frequent crack-houses. You don’t shoot smack, drop acid, skin-pop speed or blow dope. You have nothing to do with the 1.8 billion tranquillisers prescribed in Britain every year, or with the two thousand tons of pain-killers purchased over the counter. You don’t even smoke or drink. Okay, but the chances are still pretty high that you take drugs.

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