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STATEMENT OF DR. STEPHEN M. RAFFLE 



to the 



Subcommittee on Health and the Environment 

 Committee on Energy and Commerce 

 United States House of Representatives 



March 25, 1994 



I am Stephen Raffle, a physician who practices psychiatry in Oakland, California. For 

 seventeen years I served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and for ten years as an 

 Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California School of 

 Medicine, San Francisco. I hold a Diplomate in psychiatry with the American Board of Psychiatry 

 and Neurology. My B.A. is in physiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and my 

 medical degree is from the Chicago Medical School. 



In die course of more than twenty years of clinical practice, I have evaluated and/or treated 

 many patients with various drug addictions and drug intoxications. This includes heroin and other 

 opiates, alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, and various forms of cocaine. Additionally, 1 have 

 worked with many people with weight problems and other habitual and compulsive behaviors. Thus, 

 I bring to you the perspeaive of a teacher and clinician with considerable first-hand patient treatment 

 experience. 



I have reviewed H.R.1247 as well as the related Surgeon General reports issued in 1964, 

 1979, 1988 and 1990. Additionally, I have read many source articles on cigarette smoking behavior, 

 hard drug addictions, habitual behaviors, and compulsive behaviors. 



