Drugs; Drugs

Both these books about drugs set the issues in the wider Health Education context of making your own decisions based on the evidence. Naik’s book is a B format paperback but with no contents page or index it is very difficult to navigate. Quizzes, quotes from ‘typical teenagers’ and some deliberately amateurish line drawings break up a fairly substantial text that demands a committed reader.

King’s book is part of a series for youngsters with Special Needs but I was not aware of that till I read the back-cover blurb. It has 48 full colour pages in a larger format with well-spaced text and page layout and mixed type-faces giving the feel of a teenage magazine. With a contents page and (rudimentary) index any pupil (or adult come to that) will find their way easily to the basic information on the main drugs.