Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves By Mauri Saalakhan. Beltsville: Pub. Writers Inc., 1990, 99pp.

Abstract

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 suggest
ways to cope with thi global problem. The drug-related crisis with which
America is faced ha been discussed thoroughly in this book. Mauri's Why
Our Children Are Killing Themselves is not merely an academic tudy, but
is a pragmatic approach which many readers as well as policy makers and
those fighting the drug menace will find interesting, educational, and useful.
The book is a sociopsychological study of an America afflicted by drug
abuse, a curse which has hit American children especially hard. With more
and more parents themselves becoming drug addicts, American society is
witnessing the worst forms of child neglect, all of which are "threatening
to produce a new generation of psychologically deformed youths" (p. vii).
Saalakhan has divided the book into three parts. The first portion deals
with the age-old legacy of cocaine use in America and explains how American
cities have become ignominious centers of drug-related crimes. The author
has used extensive statistical data to highlight the dangerous consequences
of drug abuse. Moreover, he is not content with just explaining the problem ...