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...says that it is a crime to possess narcotics, and by jailing many of the 20,000 addicts arrested in the U.S. each year, it brands them as criminals. But most doctors and lawyers believe that drug addiction is not primarily a matter of wilful lawbreaking, agree that most cases result rather from some form of emotional disturbance, which is a medical condition. In a new book, Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? (Indiana University; $5), a joint committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association suggests that the law, no less than the addict, may need overhauling...
Federal and state laws on narcotics, together with court rulings and the regulations of the Bureau of Narcotics, are aimed mainly at preventing or penalizing the sale and possession of the drugs, not at rehabilitating the addict. The need for such laws arose almost half a century ago, when physicians unwittingly created ari army estimated at 250,000 addicts by too freely prescribing morphine as a painkiller. After possession of nonprescription narcotics was made a crime, the law cracked down so hard on prescription peddling that cautious physicians began to turn away addicts appealing to them for treatment. They still...
Realizing that it might be stirring up a hornets' nest, the commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling...
During the second stage, the ex-addict works at a regular job on the outside, contributes part of his wages to the group, continues to live at the house. One such is a middle-class college graduate who is now a salesgirl in a Santa Monica department store, after a flight that took her through prostitution and prison. Despite the new start, she still feels unable to live on her own in the world...
...addict's mispronunciation of seminar, which is part of Synanon's program for rehabilitation...