PEDIATRICS Vol. 42 No. 6 December 1968, pp. 1021
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The Drug Scene, by Donald B. Louria, M.D. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968, 215 pp., $5.95

Graham B. Blaine Jr. M.D.1

1 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Donald Louria has written a thoroughly readable book about the drug problem. He attacks it from many different perspectives-etiological, sociological, international, historical and prognostic-to name a few. The style is journalistic but the facts and the statistics show that the author has a broad and accurate scientific foundation on which to build. The colloquialisms as well as the free use of drug culture slang make one feel part of the "scene" but the words of warning and caution keep the reader from losing touch with reality.