Vipassana Meditation and Drug Addiction – Gerhard Scholz

A Historical Review:
Drug abuse has become a widespread international problem, although the substances abused and the abuse pattern may differ from country to country.

The multiplicity of phenomena generally known collectively as addictive behaviour have a long and rich social history. The field that has developed as a result of the study of these phenomena is of more recent vintage.

There is no single agreed definition of drug addiction in modern scientific or medical literature. A fairly widespread statement was the following definition by the World Health Organisation’s 1957 Expert Committee on Addiction-Producing Drugs1. ”Drug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic). Its characteristics include:

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