Addiction, Medicine and the Law.

Focuses on the implications of guidelines and a bill concerning the use of the methadone in controlling drug addiction in the U.S. Appropriate administration of methadone based on the guidelines drafted by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Food and Drug Administration; Capability of the attorney general to create rules affecting the experimental and therapeutic use of narcotics and other potentially dangerous drugs; Concerns of physicians on the guidelines and the bill.