If you value the work we are doing, but have never contributed financially, now would be an excellent time to start. If you've already given what you intend to this year, we thank you for your support and are glad to have you with us. A study released this week by the National Institutes of Health echoes the recent call by Barry McCaffrey to make methadone more easily available. People who start to use drugs at very early ages have the hardest time breaking future addictions. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have set out to break up a medical marijuana network, close on the heels of a poll showing 83 percent public approval of medical marijuana.
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None of this has made Texas any safer than numerous other states with far lower incarceration rates. NIH Report Urges Loosening Restrictions on Methadone A report released Wednesday by a federal scientific committee at the National Institutes of Health found that heroin addiction is a medical problem which is curable, but that the federal government acts as an impediment by maintaining unnecessary regulations on the drug methadone. The committee findings concur with a previous request, made in September, by Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey to reallocate the authority for prescribing and dispensing methadone to physicians rather than federal agencies. The prescribing and dispensing of methadone is regulated federally by the Food and Drug Administration along with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services. Nearly every state has additional mandates controlling the particularities of methadone use as well.