Drawn from a June 1992 international conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida, 39 papers report the latest findings and thought concerning the impact of psychotropic drugs on the immune system. Researchers are convinced that the use of recreational drugs must reduce the body's natural immunity; they

This volume is based on the program of the Second International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and AIDS, held in Clearwater Beach, FL in June 1992. The Conference was supported in part by the University of South Florida College of MediCine with financial assistance from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The focus of this conference was the effects of drugs of abuse on immunity. It is now widely recognized that psychoactive drugs of abuse, including marijuana, cocaine, and opiates, as well as alcohol, have marked effects in an individual, including effects on their nervous system...