Narcotics Addiction and Its Treatment
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TL;DR
'The hold of drugs on persons addicted to them is so great that it would be almost appropriate to reverse the old adage and say that opium derivatives represent the religion of the people who use them.
Abstract
Drug addiction is one pathology, whether it be regarded as a public health or psychiatric problem, which seems to have benefited comparatively little from new advances in knowledge over the last few decades. It is certainly a most complex condition in terms of prognosis and recovery rate.' The hold of drugs on persons addicted to them is so great that it would be almost appropriate to reverse the old adage and say that opium derivatives represent the religion of the people who use them.