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Narcotics research, rehabilitation, and treatment. Hearings, Ninety ...

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10The question currently before your committee, the substitution ofsynthetic narcotic analgesics for narcotic analgesics or their semisyntheticderivatives derived from opium is not a new one. Nor has it remainedunanswered by competent authorities in the past. In 1951, theCommittee on Drug Addiction <strong>and</strong> <strong>Narcotics</strong>—now the Committee onProblems of Drug Dependence—National Academy of Sciences-NationalResearch Council, was confronted by the following questionsby the Munitions Board (Minutes of the seventh meeting, January 15,1951, "Bulletin of the Committee on Drug Addiction <strong>and</strong> <strong>Narcotics</strong>") :1. What percentage of national requirements for opium derivatives couldsafely be replaced by synthetics ?2. If at some stage during a national emergency our stocks of opium shouldbecome exhausted <strong>and</strong> irreplenishable, how serious would be the consequenceson

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