Drug Addiction: The Second Report of the Interdepartmental Committee

Abstract

This second Brain Committee Report (British Crown Copyright 1965) has been reprinted with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, through the gracious cooperation of Mr. Kenneth Rhodes of British Information Services. No part of this Report may be reproduced without permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Additional copies may be purchased from H. M. Stationery Office, P. O. Box 569, London, S E. 1 (1s. 9d. including mailing) or from British Information Services, 845 Third Avenue, New York 10022 (30 cents including mailing).The Journal's Editorial Board felt it was necessary to make available to our readers the entire Report, rather than an abstract or review of it, for the conclusions alone may not be fully understood without consideration of the material upon which they are based. We wish to emphasize that the Report s not legislation, that it does not recommend that private physicians be generally forbidden to use heroin or cocaine in private practice, that it does not s...