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Another approach to the problem of heroin addiction is the methadone maintenance program. Pioneered in New York beginning in 1964 by Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander, the program involves switching an addict from heroin, which can cost $50 or more a day on the black market, to methadone, a synthetic substitute that can be made available legally for about 150 for a day's dosage. Administered as part of a total rehabilitation program involving counseling and therapy, methadone eases heroin withdrawal and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold...
Many medical and legal authorities object to substituting one form of addiction for another. Others are concerned about the lack of supervision in some treatment centers. Unless the cen ters check urine samples daily, addicts can continue to use heroin. But the program has solid support among those addicts enrolled, who see in it their only hope of leading a relatively normal life. Their hope is justified by a recent study of New York's methadone program. According to Dr. Dole, 82% of those who originally enrolled in the New York program are still participating, and three-quarters...
...small, controlled therapeutic community. These residential communities first detoxify, then attempt to rehabilitate the drug user by restructuring his eqo and life pattern. Some, like California's famed Synanon, are run largely by former addicts. They accept only those who have proved their determination to kick the heroin habit, and seek to increase the addict's understanding of himself and his problems through often brutal group-encounter sessions. Others, like New York's city-run Phoenix and Horizon Houses, utilize both ex-addicts and professionals...
...another under staff scrutiny. A few, like the two federal narcotics hospitals at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, Texas, are more conservatively run; most of their patients are ordered there by the courts rather than entering voluntarily and have less motivation for reform. More than 90% eventually return to heroin...
...bill will aid Government investigators in tracing the often devious routes by which money goes abroad and returns anonymously to the U.S. Robert M. Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney for the New York area, asserts that some Swiss bank accounts are used to deposit the profits of heroin trafficking. Less often recognized is the dubious or downright illegal use of Swiss bank accounts by seemingly respectable businessmen...