While drug abuse patients have long been regarded as nuisances, I hope the revision will help increase the number of psychiatrists who will treat such patients, so that we can recommend them to hospit

Takao Hayashi, president of the national federation of associations for families with drug dependent patients, referring to a recommendation by a panel to the health minister that specialized treatment for drug dependence be covered by the medical fee system, the first move of its kind in Japan. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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