The challenge for the international community has been to establish a regulatory system that ensures that the legitimate medical and scientific needs for opiates are met, whilst preventing diversion to illicit markets. Its achievement has been to limit worldwide adult illicit drug use to 5% while meeting these needs, says Kathy Gyngell, CPS Research Fellow and author of ‘The Phoney War on Drugs’.
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