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"Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high." - Kenneth Minogue, professor emeritus at The London School of Economics and author of The Liberal Mind
"A manifesto on addiction by a truth-telling psychiatrist who explodes conventional wisdom. With customary wit and literary forays into Coleridge and De Quincey, Dalrymple turns his raw experience into gems of clinical insight. Addicts are not passive, nor are they diseased; but they have managed, Dalrymple argues, to seduce a vast treatment bureaucracy into regarding them as medical victims." - Sally Satel, M.D., author of PC, M.D: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
The Adam Smith Institute
"This is unashamedly another plug for 'Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy' by iconoclastic doc Theodore Dalrymple, which I first reviewed back in January, and which our ...
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Times Online
"Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison doctor and author of 'Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy'."
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Adam Smith Institute Blog
"For a very long time doctors who worked with drug addicts have stated that addiction to illicit drugs like heroin is not stronger than that to legal drugs like cigarettes. But this message has not ...
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Nursing Standard
Rated: 4/5
"This polemical text exposes what the author sees as the wilful misconceptions, lies and evasions of the past 200 years with regard to heroin addiction. Psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple ...
The Adam Smith Institute
"More to my taste, though, is Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by iconoclastic doc Theodore Dalrymple. Almost everything you know about heroin addiction is wrong, he says. ...
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The Guardian
"This book blasts open with baleful force: "Addiction to opiates is a pretend rather than a real illness, treatment of which is pretend rather than real treatment." From his experience as a prison ...
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Nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk
Junk Medicine was featurd on the front cover of Nursing Standard27th August 2008
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Timesonline.co.uk
We must kick our methadone habit- Theodore Dalrymple, The Times30th May 2008
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Media Review
All healthcare professionals need to engage in practive thinking when providing care. This engaging book will help them do just that.- Nursing Standard, February 2008
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Books.guardian.co.uk
Steven Poole on Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy- Steven Poole, The Guardian, 29th September 2007
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Bloggernews.net
I was thoroughly enthralled by the absolute brutal honesty of this book.- Andrew Ian Dodge, Blogger News Network, 23rd August 2007
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Mailonsunday.co.uk
Heroin addiction isn't an illness...and we should stop spending millions 'treating' itA leading prison doctor argues that his profession has totally misunderstood addiction- An extract from Junk ...
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Bbc.co.uk
Is heroin addiction real?- Dr Dalrymple was interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme, 14th August 2007
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Comment.independent.co.uk
It is a taboo-shattering, sacred cow-slaughtering, myth-destroying little gem of a book.- Dominic Lawson, The Independent, 2007
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