Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves

With the ever-increasing menace of drug abuse in America and elsewhere,there have appeared a host of tudie seeking to highlight as well as to suggestways to cope with thi global problem. The drug-related crisis with whichAmerica is faced ha been discussed thoroughly in this book. Mauri's WhyOur Children Are Killing Themselves is not merely an academic tudy, butis a pragmatic approach which many readers as well as policy makers andthose fighting the drug menace will find interesting, educational, and useful.The book is a sociopsychological study of an America afflicted by drugabuse, a curse which has hit American children especially hard. With moreand more parents themselves becoming drug addicts, American society iswitnessing the worst forms of child neglect, all of which are "threateningto produce a new generation of psychologically deformed youths" (p. vii).Saalakhan has divided the book into three parts. The first portion dealswith the age-old legacy of cocaine use in America and explains how Americancities have become ignominious centers of drug-related crimes. The authorhas used extensive statistical data to highlight the dangerous consequencesof drug abuse. Moreover, he is not content with just explaining the problem ...