“And even if medical science has changed its views on addiction, policies and social structures have been slower in following the science toward a public health-based approach.” - Dr. Nora Volkow, President of NIDA
Recently, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, president of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), wrote an article on the 50th anniversary of the organization and the history of the institution, as well as the the science and technology that NIDA has backed for over half a century.