The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972


Acknowledgments Introduction

Table of Contents

Part I - The Opiates: Heroin, Morphine, Opium, and Methadone

Chapter 1 -

Chapter 2 -

Chapter 3 -

Chapter 4 -

Chapter 5 -

Chapter 6 -

Chapter 7 -

Chapter 8 -

Chapter 9 -

Chapter 10 -

Chapter 11 -

Chapter 12 - and other occupational hazards of heroin addiction

Chapter 13 -

Chapter 14 -

Chapter 15 -

Chapter 16 -

Chapter 17 -

Chapter 18 -

Chapter 19 -

Chapter 20 -


Part II - Caffeine

Chapter 21 -

Chapter 22 -


Part III - Nicotine

Chapter 23 -

Chapter 24 -

Chapter 25 -

Chapter 26 -

Chapter 27 -


Part IV - Alcohol, Barbiturates, Tranquilizers

Chapter 28 -

Chapter 29 -

Chapter 30 -

Chapter 31 -

Chapter 32 -

Chapter 33 -


Part V - Coca, Cocaine, Amphetamines, "Speed"

Chapter 34 -

Chapter 35 -

Chapter 36 -

Chapter 37 -

Chapter 38 -

Chapter 39 -

Chapter 40 -

Chapter 41 -

Chapter 42 -


Part VI - Inhalants, solvents and glue-sniffing

Chapter 43 -

Chapter 44 -


Part VII - LSD and LSD-like drugs

Chapter 45 -

Chapter 46 -

Chapter 47 -

Chapter 48 -

Chapter 49 -

Chapter 50 -

Chapter 51 -

Chapter 52 -


Part VIII - Marijuana and Hashish

Chapter 53 -

Chapter 54 -

Chapter 55 -

Chapter 56 -

Chapter 57 -

Chapter 58 -

Chapter 59 -

Chapter 60 - The Le Dain Commission Report - coming soon!


Part IX - The Drug Scene

Chapter 61 -

Chapter 62 -

Chapter 63 -

Chapter 64 -

Chapter 65 -

Chapter 66 -

Chapter 67 -


Part X - Conclusions and Recommendations

Chapter 68 -

Chapter 69 -

Chapter 70 -