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Drugs in Perspective
Drugs in Perspective: a fact book on drug use and misuse
Smithsonian Institution
1972
Submitter: This one is not as bad as it looks on first glance. The disco party cover is quite appropriate for the subject matter and the 1972 publication date. This is actually from the Smithsonian, to accompany a ‘very special’ exhibition. Hence the really cool photo montage page with the Mad Men office party in the middle. Sadly, there are only about three other illustrations (dramatic ones, however) and the rest is text and clip-art. And at 47 total pages, the text is nothing unique or eternal. Dictionary definitions, timelines, and statistics.
Holly: What worries me most is that some libraries have cataloged this as juvenile literature.
7 Responses to Drugs in Perspective
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What drug is the woman doing in the ‘coffee break’ pic? Caffeine?
Mother’s Little Helper?
She doesn’t care about how dirty her kitchen is all she cares about is COFFEE!!
WIN just for the epic pic of the dirty hippies.
Maybe it’s me, but some of these druggie books from the 70s are beginning to look like just a different version of how “commies” were depicted in the 50s and 60s. Whatever is bad is “out of it.”
Dirty Naked Hippies! Yeah!
The funny part is that kids would read this and say, “Wow, I want to take drugs!”