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Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board Dan Small*1,2 and Ernest Drucker3,4 Address: 1Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2Director, PHS Community Services Society, Vancouver, Canada, 3Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC, USA and 4Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, NYC, USA Email: Dan Small* - dansmall@interchange.ubc.ca; Ernest Drucker - emdrucker@ * Corresponding author Published: 7 May 2008 Received: 13 April 2008 Accepted: 7 May 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5:16 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-5-16 This article is available from: /content/5/1/16 © 2008 Small and Drucker; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition), the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world. Like that earlier Inquisition of 1633 that convicte