“And even if medical science has changed its views on addiction, policies and social structures have been slower in following the science toward a public health-based approach.”
Dr. Nora D. Volkow, president of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, recently wrote an article on the 50th anniversary of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the history of the organization, and the science and technology that NIDA has supported for over half a century.