Session III
TOLERANCE A N D ADDICTION TO DRUGS A N D ALCOHOLISM
I N T R O D U C T O R Y R E M A R K S S. S. K E T Y , Moderator
This symposium broadens its field of interest now in undertaking a discussion of the origins of tolerance and addiction to drugs and the problem of alcoholism. This question, then, has quite a broad basis which includes not only the biochemical and the physiological disturb
ances associated with addiction to drugs but also the psychological and sociological factors equally associated in the cause and manifestations of these important national problems. If this conference appears to neglect the psychosocial factors it is not, I am sure, for lack of confidence in their importance but only because the biochemical aspects are of common concern to this meeting.
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