All over the world, adolescents are at one time or another confronted with the strong temptation to try narcotics.

This terrifying book is a compendium of "arguments against " presented in a form anyone can understand. It is written on a level unknown to most Americans and especially children. The book presents real confessions of real drug addicts, aged 17 to 42, horrifying stories, accompanied by comments of the author, medical specialists, teachers and representatives of the police. This book is full of common sense.

It is not the usual and useless book of anti-drug propaganda full of threats of "irreversible brain damage," which to adolescents is a pure abstraction. This work introduces them to the nightmarish experiences of drug addicts told in their own words. Its brutally honest narratives will dispel any aura of glamour that may have surrounded narcotics in the minds of some adolescents and scare them so badly that they will never give in to the impulse to try them-at least that's what many experts and media reviewers say.

The main reason so many of our children do succumb to the initial temptation to use drugs is that they don't know the real truth, the real consequences of doing so. After reading this book they will know it.

Here is what one Russian blogger with a specific name Angry Vampire writes about this book:
- Such first person accounts always get you where you live. They ought to print "Magic dreams" at government expense and give it to middle school classes to read, so that when these kids hear the words "meth," "heroin," or " shoot up" it would trigger an involuntary gag reflex. That would throw cold water on them once and for all.

And another blogger writes:
- Not long ago I happened to get a hold of this book by Sergey Baimukhametov. I began reading it just before going to bed. And...I just couldn't do it. I rushed to my mom and woke her up with my wild screaming: "Mom! I'm scared!" All of you, my peers, read it! Let all of us be too scared even to think about drugs, to say nothing of touching them.

It is no wonder that "Magic dreams" proved to be a bestseller in Russia, and, as of this writing, has been published in 18 editions.
About the Author: Sergey Baimukhametov, who wrote the book Magic Dreams. Confessions of Drug-addicts, is a Moscow writer and journalist. The First World Congress of Antinarcotics Forces in Moscow awarded him a special citation recognizing his "Benevolent Efforts and Accomplishments" in this cause, which culminated in this "unique and one of a kind" book. Magic Dreams has proved to be a bestseller in Russia, and, as of this writing, has been published in 18 editions, including a special edition targeted at Russian teenagers and commissioned by UNICEF (The United Nations Children's Fund).

Sergey Baimukhametov was born in 1950 in the city of Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan). He began working as a professional journalist when he was 17 and has also been employed building roads in the taiga and drilling for water in the desert. After completing his military service, he worked as a criminal investigator. Baimukhametov graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute of Moscow, subsequently working in a number of Moscow publishing houses, newspaper editorial departments, as well as in television and radio. He has authored several collections of short stories and novels: including Sauran, Copybook Maxims, The Autumn Caravan, The Judgment Day. His articles in various periodicals describing his research on medieval Rus, which he began publishing in the late 90s has attracted considerable attention and controversy.

Baimukhametov is also well known as a political writer. His essays are regularly published in magazines and newspapers in Russia, USA and Germany.

His rich and varied life experiences and outstanding communication skills enabled him to collect first hand material from drug- addicts, material which he used to create the remarkably powerful book presented here.