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This fully updated edition of the essential reference Understanding Drugs provides a complete overview of the key facts and core issues surrounding substance misuse. All commonly-used street drugs are covered, with quick reference guides, helpful diagrams and clear information on each drug's effects, methods of use, legal status, availability, treatment options and associated slang. This edition includes new sections on ketamine, `date-rape' drugs, and over-the-counter opiate-based drugs, and recent findings on the long-term effects of cannabis and its potential medicinal use, and discussion of the legalisation debate. This comprehensive handbook is an essential reference for teachers, social workers, youth workers, residential home managers, policy makers and parents, enabling readers to recognise drug misuse and confidently offer information and guidance. A companion volume, Understanding Drug Issues: A Photocopiable Resource Workbook is also available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Content

Foreword

Introduction to boost technology

Lessons from history

Turbochargers: past and present

Nitrous oxide: from the beginnings to the present day

Aspiration: theory and basic principles

What you should know about turbochargers

Turbocharger boost pressure control

The strategy to prevent the turbocharger turboyam

What you should know about turbochargers

Cooling the intake charge

Injection water and other alternative solutions

Fuels and fuel additives

Fuel

Air intake system

Injection of nitrous oxide

Exhaust system

The process of combustion and ignition system

The engine management system

Increased engine durability

Lubrication system

Cooling system

Modification of the factory engine supercharged

Testing theory in practice and a few thoughts

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.