Street Drugs
by: Andrew Tyler
Coronet Books; 2Rev Ed edition (4 May 1995)

A balanced and impartial source of advice and information on what is known about various drugs, their history and how they are used. The legal and medical status of each drug is covered and facts are sifted from hysteria. Drugs covered include alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and steroids.

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A Great and Growing Evil
by: Royal College of Physicians
Routledge (April 1987)

This new report shows that no system in the body is immune to alcohol. It discusses the role of the medical profession in identification and treatment of alcohol problems and suggests ways of implementing more effective prevention.

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Depression and How to Survive It
by: Spike Milligan and Anthony Clare
Arrow Books Ltd; New Ed edition (3 Feb 1994)

Spike Milligan reveals the dark side of his life in this book which is co-written with his psychiatrist Anthony Clare. He recalls the traumas of his childhood, his highly-strung mother, his largely absent father, the cruelties of a colonial upbringing and of sadism towards animals, the break-up of his first marriage, the mortar bomb which blew him up in Italy and the overwork which gave him a mental breakdown during the "Goon Show".

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The Noonday Demon
by: Andrew Solomon
Chatto and Windus (3 May 2001)

This extraordinarily moving, shocking and eye-opening work is set to become the classic text for the literary market on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live now - the book that knocks even William Styron's Darkness Visible out of the water.

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by: Kay Redfield Jamison
Picador; New Ed edition (9 May 1997)

This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.

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