Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research by Nancy Campbell

Author:Nancy Campbell [Campbell, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Science Steps In: Responses from Relevant Scientific Communities

A deluge of letters praising the ARC research program as essential to the global drug policy regime and to the growth of scientific knowledge on the effects of drugs on brain and body came from the scientific community. An NIMH research task force gave this evaluation in its report “Program of the Addiction Research Center, 1935–Present”:

By any measure, the program of the ARC has been an outstanding success for 38 years and is currently as vigorous as any time in its illustrious history. There have over the years been natural changes in programs and goals of the ARC and changes in emphasis, which were due to changes in either the staff or interests of the principle [sic] investigators. Without any reservation, I believe that the Page 155 →drug assessment program of the ARC has been, from every point of view, one of the most outstanding and effective public health endeavors in preventing drug abuse. No drug that has been evaluated at the ARC and has been judged to have a low abuse potentiality has given rise to any significant abuse problem. There have been a very large number of drugs, however, where pharmacologic properties are closely similar to those of heroin and morphine and dilaudid, which if they had been uncontrolled most certainly had the potential for creating major problems of abuse. (29–30)25

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