Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Rusher, publisher of the National Review and Dershowitz's opponent in the debate, argued that a heroin maintenance program is impractical because an addict needs between four and six fixes...
...School professor yesterday advocated the adoption of a heroin maintenance program "to protect the addict's health and benefit society through a reduction in crime...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, called heroin maintenance "a humane and effective approach to drug addiction." "It is the least worst alternative available to us," he added...
...little known fact that there was a short-lived experience with heroin maintenance in this country. After World War I, approximately 44 out-patient clinics were established in various cities to administer opiates to addicts otherwise unable to obtain their drugs legally. Most of these clinics were understaffed and had little direction and purpose and even less knowledge. The persons in charge were usually uninterested in trying to cure any addictions and apparently decided very quickly that it was easier to give an addict a week's supply of his drug than to see him every...
...Heroin maintenance programs will not cure drug addiction, but there is every reason to believe that they will result in smaller increments, if not decrements, in the prevalence of heroin addiction, and greatly reduce the crime associated with it. Good maintenance programs with first-rate treatment and rehabilitative capacities would be less expensive in human and financial terms than the present largely punitive approach. The difference in money and energy could more sensibly be spent for research on the root social and psychological causes of addiction, with an aim toward the ultimate goal of prevention...