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Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy Finds Addiction Treatment Works
Charles Marwick
JAMA. 1998;279:1149-1150.
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ADDICTION to illicit drugs can be treated with as much success as illnesses like diabetes, asthma, and hypertension, says a national panel of physicians.
This finding belies the popular belief that drug addiction treatment carries a high failure rate. Moreover, mounting effective treatment programs for drug addiction may cost 10 times less than putting addicts in prison. But convincing the public and, in turn, Congress that this is so is going to be uphill work.
The evidence that drug addiction treatments are effective comes from a series of reviews and additional data analyses of more than 600 peer-reviewed research articles. Some of the findings in the group's report were discussed at a press conference in Washington, DC, by Thomas McLellan, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, one of the physicians who led the effort.
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