While most doctors prescribe such drugs responsibly, more needs to be done to help curb addiction and prevent the diversion of controlled substances to a flourishing black market.
The measure may also cause other states, including New York, to reform punitive drug laws that have failed to curb addiction or reduce drug-related crime.
Dr. Margolin said that scientists did not yet understand how acupuncture might work to curb addiction but that there were a variety of theories.
Iran's government, trying to curb addiction's huge social costs, has been more supportive of drug treatment than any other government in the Islamic world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
A naturally occurring hallucinogen popular in the 1960s among recreational drug users has long been thought to help curb addiction to harder drugs, but its side-effects have kept it off pharmacy shelves.
Recognising that much (but by far not all) of recent research on addiction and lifestyles is centred on theories in medicine and psychology [1], the positioning of this expert team is both challenging and interesting when it comes to future European policy and measures to curb addiction.
It's especially problematic, given that in the same speech about Health Canada's newest anti-weed ad campaign, Ms. Ambrose declared drugs like Oxycontin would be given "stronger warning labels" to try and curb addiction.
Sheff, a journalist, writes that America's "stigmatization of drug users" has backfired, hindering progress in curbing addiction.
Rep. Perry is on the Health and Human Services Committee, and is leading a group to work on a bill aimed at curbing addiction in Washington County.
Evidence-based psychosocial treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention, can play an important role in curbing addiction.
