Dr. Goodman practiced Internal Medicine for forty years in a suburb of Washington, DC. During those years and the prior years when he received residency training, he was exposed to many victims of the drug war. His experiences teaching medical students on the ward of a large city hospital added to encounters with many drug dependent patients. His interest led him to become the chairman of a state medical society drug committee and to attempt an educational program for primary care physicians, something lacking in their medical schooling. Ultimately his frustration with the daily headlines chro...