Many of Delfino’s assertions regarding the evolution of drug regulation in the United States are either inaccurate or lacking nuance. For example, the Article states that the Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 “was the first government regulation of opioids.” Delfino, supra note 4, at 354. While this law was the first federal prohibition on opiate use, Congress had previously regulated opiate availability through taxation and tariffs, see Audrey Redford & Benjamin Powell, Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs:
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