Many of these research issues are touched upon in such diverse articles as those on controlling illicit drug supply; on TREATMENT; or PREVENTION; and on VULNERABILITY AS A CAUSE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
Clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, and basic research is carried out primarily by researchers at universities, government research centers, and research institutes. It is funded both publicly and privately. The work of a representative few of these centers is described elsewhere in the encyclopedia (see Addiction Research Foundation (Canada); Addiction Research Unit (U.K.); Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA); Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies; U.S. Government/U.S. Government Agencies (SAMHSA, NIAAA, NIDA, CSAP, CSAT). In 1992, worldwide, there were more than eighty research centers devoted to problems of drugs and alcohol. Fifty-eight of the centers were in the United States; thirteen were in Europe and the U.K.; the others were in Central and South America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
For more information on research, see also Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain;Pain: Behavioral Methods for Measuring the Analgesic Effects of Drugs; Research, Animal Models.
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In a Chinese book on pharmacy, which dates to 2732B. C., references are found to the properties of MARIJUANA (a type of Old World HEMP, Cannabis sativa of the mulberry family).
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