Sentences with phrase «leading medical journals such»

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The Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed — leading the Journal of American Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»

Discover senior editor John Langone interviewed more than a dozen leading epidemiologists in the United States, Britain, and France and consulted such publications as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet.

In September 2007, a study in the U.K. medical journal The Lancet came to a similar conclusion, leading the European Parliament last July to order such products to carry a label warning consumers of the potential risk.