by Peter Duesberg

About the author: Peter Duesberg is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading critic of current HIV/AIDS medical orthodoxy.

Virtually everyone’s life has been directly impacted by the drug-use epidemic— the only new health risk of the Western world since World War II. Most people in the industrial world either have tried an illicit drug or know others who have. Just one or two generations ago, high schools spent their time trying to control cigarette smoking in the rest rooms; in those same rest rooms today, students can find a laundry list of recreational drugs for smoking, swallowing, snorting, or even injecting.

The 1960s gained the reputation as the decade of freely available drugs, especially...