Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Smak trucizny by Neil Bradbury

6 reviews

anniereads221's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Death, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Medical content, Gore, Child death, Blood, Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Murder, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

helena_chris's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Death, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abortion, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Drug abuse and Addiction

atalea's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Vomit

lilawsahar's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

It doesn’t read like non-fiction which is a plus for me! It was informational but also talks about past poisoning cases which read like a fun lil story (if you thing true crime is fun haha). I will definitely read other books by this author! Loved his writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Drug abuse, Vomit, and Violence

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

Enjoyable book geared toward the layman, this describes poisons in terms of biochemistry. Alas, I have always been poor at understanding chemistry so I didn’t really get some of the more complicated sections. However, the author used similes that made it easier to picture what he meant, such as referring to the destruction within a cell as a mess of Christmas lights, attached in a string and hopelessly tangled. 

He also shows how the chemical can be used for good - atropine is toxic but can be an antidote in controlled doses - and for evil, citing poisoning cases from the past up to our time period. (While he explains the destruction that would result from injecting bleach, I was disappointed that he didn’t mention Trump’s crazy suggestion that this might stop COVID.)

I liked the book a lot but the similes were used far too often. In one single page in the polonium chapter, he refers to its effect on the body a wrecking ball, a right hook from a bare-knuckle prizefighter, and the Vandals sacking Rome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Abortion, Child death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Murder

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Vomit, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Toxic relationship, War, Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Sexism