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To the Editor.—Several weeks ago, my abiding interest in our national drug policy was further piqued by a book review in JAMA,¹ so I ordered The Selfish Brain, by Robert L. DuPont, MD. When it arrived, I was astounded to find that, although dealing assertively with all aspects of drug addiction from history through modern clinical concepts, the book contains no bibliography.

Written for a lay and professional readership, the book makes several policy recommendations, including mass drug testing of high schoolers. Given the author's prominence as a former presidential drug policy adviser and first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it is sure to be widely quoted. That a book devoid of supportive references would be published by the American Psychiatric Press and reviewed in JAMA lends it an unwarranted appearance of academic integrity.

Beyond that, the review, while timidly taking issue with the . . . [Full Text of this Article]