Many knowledgable professionals in medicine and related fields have written extensively about the contradictory and inconsistent laws and attitudes of both the public and the experts concerning the problem of drug abuse and addiction. Proposals for correcting this situation have ranged from de-controlling all drugs to strict federal and state control of all drugs, including alcohol, tobacco and caffein. This article proposes that, (a) all drugs be regulated by physicians, (b) the FDA be only a research and information agency, and (c) that the education of physicians emphasize the facts, not myths, of drug abuse. Thus, any drug use would be solely a matter between a physician and his patient.
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