Drug Addiction: A Medical Problem

The Problem of Drug Addiction

Legal, Psychological and Medical Aspects of Drug Addiction

Drug addiction ranks with medical economics as one of the most contentious and emotionally-charged subjects on the current medical-scene. This situation in North America was well described in June 1963 by Senator Jacob Javits of New York, who called it a state of seemingly endless drift, characterized by indecision, uncertainty and controversy. There is practically unanimous agreement between m...

Section Ii Medical Aspects of the Addiction Problem,

20. In the course of our inquiry we have received a large amount of valuable information upon the nature, causation, and prognosis of addiction.as well as upon upon the different mehods of treatment which have been advocated from to time, In asmuch as such informationhas not heretofore been available in so easily accessible a form, and as there has not previously been so favourable an opportuni...

Section Ii Medical Aspects of the Addiction Problem,

20. In the course of our inquiry we have received a large amount of valuable information upon the nature, causation, and prognosis of addiction.as well as upon upon the different mehods of treatment which have been advocated from to time, In asmuch as such informationhas not heretofore been available in so easily accessible a form, and as there has not previously been so favourable an opportuni...

Section Ii Medical Aspects of the Addiction Problem,

20. In the course of our inquiry we have received a large amount of valuable information upon the nature, causation, and prognosis of addiction.as well as upon upon the different mehods of treatment which have been advocated from to time, In asmuch as such informationhas not heretofore been available in so easily accessible a form, and as there has not previously been so favourable an opportuni...