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The Mississippi Lawyer Winter 2016 31 Addiction and Treatment in a Professional Population his article addresses the high rate of addiction among professionals and outlines successful treatment for licensed professionals. TSource documents include the Ameri- can Society of Addiction Medicine ASAM Principles ofAddiction Medicine Textbook and the American Society of Addiction Medicine overview article pub- lished in April of 2011. Drug and alcohol problems are com- mon within our society and we are not first to have such problems. The great Physicians Hippocrates and Galen in Greek and Roman societies wrote of the symptoms and damage caused by sub- stances. Indian and Chinese Physicians were describing similar problems long before Greece and then Rome emerged as civilizations. Our own history records a significant morphine problem after our civil war in the mid-1860s and by the early 1900s we had even more significant problems with over-the-counter heroin and cocaine. We were sufficiently con- cerned as a society to pass the Harrison act in 1916. This act placed a Physician with prescribing authority in between the consumer and the provider of addictive and dangerous substances. We were also sufficiently concerned with a nationwide alcohol problem to pass the 18th amend- ment to our constitution prohibition in 1918. We then repealed it in 1933 after Continued on next page