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New White House Drug Policy Strategy Focuses on Scientific Evidence

Michael Botticelli, acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, has announced the release of the 2014 National Drug Control Strategy—the Obama’s Administration primary blueprint for drug policy in the United States.This year's strategy focuses on the science behind drug addiction. The new policy is based on the growing body of scientific evidence that addiction is a disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated and is an illness from which people can recover—not a moral failure on the part of the individual, a once...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - 7 days ago