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Drugs of abuse

Here are entered works on those mind-altering drugs, such as alcohol, hallucinogens, marijuana, narcotics, sedatives, and stimulants, that governments seek to control because they are liable to be abused.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Drugs

• Psychotropic drugs

• Drugs of abuse -- Government policy
• Drugs of abuse -- Metabolic detoxification
• Drugs of abuse -- Metabolism
• Drugs of abuse -- Pharmacokinetics

• Street drugs

• War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (in English and Spanish; c2011), by Global Commission on Drug Policy (PDF files at globalcommissionondrugs.org)

• Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Pharmaceutics of Drugs of Abuse, ed. by Rao S. Rapaka, C. Nora Chiang, and Billy R. Martin (PDF files at NIH)

• Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Pharmaceutics of Drugs of Abuse, ed. by Rao S. Rapaka, C. Nora Chiang, and Billy R. Martin (PDF files at NIH)

• Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Pharmaceutics of Drugs of Abuse, ed. by Rao S. Rapaka, C. Nora Chiang, and Billy R. Martin (PDF files at NIH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Seven Sisters of Sleep: Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World (London: J. Blackwood, ca. 1860), by M. C. Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• Research Findings of Smoking of Abused Substances, ed. by C. Nora Chiang and Richard L. Hawks (PDF at NIH)

• Through the Gateway of the Heart: Accounts of Experiences With MDMA and Other Empathogenic Substances (1985), ed. by Sophia Adamson, contrib. by Ralph Metzner (HTML at maps.org)
• E for Ecstasy, by Nicholas Saunders, contrib. by Alexander T. Shulgin (HTML at ecstasy.org)

• Through the Gateway of the Heart: Accounts of Experiences With MDMA and Other Empathogenic Substances (1985), ed. by Sophia Adamson, contrib. by Ralph Metzner (HTML at maps.org)

• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML at cyberpunk.ru)

• Psychedelic Review (full serial archives)

• The Secret Chief: Conversations with a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement (1997), by Myron J. Stolaroff (HTML with commentary at maps.org)

• Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (Washington: National Academy Press, c1999), ed. by Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, and John A. Benson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25: Individual and Group Procedures (1959), by D. B. Blewett and N Chwelos (HTML and PDF with commentary at maps.org)

• Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25: Individual and Group Procedures (1959), by D. B. Blewett and N Chwelos (HTML and PDF with commentary at maps.org)

• Research Findings of Smoking of Abused Substances, ed. by C. Nora Chiang and Richard L. Hawks (PDF at NIH)

• Appraisal of the Safety of Chemicals in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics (Austin, TX: Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States, 1959), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The AAPS Journal (full serial archives)

• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Lectures of Pharmacy: Exhibiting Exact Rules for Prescribing (London: Printed for J. Noon, 1744), by Hieronymus David Gaubius (page images at NIH)

• Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica, Together With a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments (first edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1899) (centenary facsimile reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon (second edition of the Merck Manual; New York and Chicago: Merck and Co., c1901) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1905 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (third edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fourth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fifth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analysis of Marijuana Policy, by National Research Council Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug-Acceptor Interactions (c2008), by Niels Bindslev (PDF and illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Testing Drugs for Physical Dependence Potential and Abuse Liability, ed. by Joseph V. Brady and Scott E. Lukas (PDF at NIH)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• The British Pharmaceutical Codex: An Imperial Dispensatory, for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists (first edition; London: Pharmaceutical Society, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (in English and Spanish; c2011), by Global Commission on Drug Policy (PDF files at globalcommissionondrugs.org)
• Drugs and Terrorism, 1984: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Investigation of the Link Between Drugs and Terrorism, August 2, 1984 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the U.S. (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1978), by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman, and Jeffrey Steinberg (PDF at wlym.com)

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)
• War-Time Cook and Health Book (ca. 1917), by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company (page images at Duke)
• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Physical Pharmacy: Physical Chemical Principles in Pharmaceutical Science (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1960), by Alfred N. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Technology and Chemistry of Alkaloids (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Frank E. Hamerslag (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chemistry of Plant Constituents (revised edition; Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1943), by Ole Gisvold and Charles H. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Mohammad Monirul Azam (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy (4th edition; Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1917), by Lucius E. Sayre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traité des Simples (Arabic passages with French translation and commentary; 3 parts (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale t. 23, 25, and 26); Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1877-1883), by 'Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bayṭār, ed. by Lucien Leclerc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Neural Control of Renal Function (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences, 2011), by Ulla Kopp (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Pharmaceutical Selling, "Detailing", and Sales Training (second edition; Scarsdale, NY: Heathcote-Woodbridge, 1959), by Arthur F. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Study and Stimulants: or, The Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life (1883), ed. by A. Arthur Reade (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.