As it is commented in the preface to the Spanish edition of this book (Ed. amargord 2012), if Eduardo Hidalgo "had wanted to dismantle the myth that Brigitte Nielsen's silicone teets exploded in a plane, he would have gone to his plastic surgeon, would have implanted a couple of prosthesis in XXL size and would have taken the next plane Madrid-Tombouctou. ..." And that is what, ultimately and in this work, the author has done in the field of mythical drugs and urban legends about drugs.

In the specific case of adrenochrome, this book offers the first-hand experiences of a well-known psychologist and expert in the field who can be counted among the very few--not to say almost non-existent--inhabitants of the planet who had nowadays the chance to inject intravenously this intriguing substance.