Comments on the physician's role in drug abuse work.
The use of illegal intoxicating drugs by young people has reached epidemic proportions. The seriousness of the social problems underlying drug usage and the gravity of consequences for individuals and for society as a whole are a challenge to the adult world. Members of the medical profession are in a particularly strategic position to help meet that challenge. Through research, through legislative study, through clinical contacts, and through self-education and participation in community education programs, physicians can help to fulfill the responsibility of their generation for responding with integrity and intelligent leadership to this as well as to other problems of the times.
D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D012380:Role; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders