Drug Addiction in India and Its Treatment
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Although in India drug addiction has existed on a more extensive scale than in any other country in the world with the exception perhaps of China little is known regarding the problem. Two commissions were appointed to go into the matter at the end of the last century; a Royal Commission was appointed in 1893 to enquire into the prevalence of the opium habit, and a commission to go into the question of hemp drugs was appointed by the Government of India in 1895. Both these commissions collected important information regarding the prevalence and effects of these drug habits in a general way, but unfortunately the medical and scientific aspects of these addictions were not
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