Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon's Washington, drug abuse has reached crisis priority. Heroin addiction mounts appallingly among American soldiers in Viet Nam; each returned planeload of G.I.s adds to the drug malaise at home. Once confined to black urban ghettos, the disease has come to invade the heartland of white, middle-class America. In the judgment of some soberminded politicians, the spread of heroin addiction could have the effect of precipitating an American pullout from Southeast Asia. The President moved last week to head off any such repercussions, declaring a "national emergency" and initiating the most intensive antidrug program yet undertaken...
...pending congressional ap proval. The director, Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, 37, Director of the Drug Abuse Program for the Illinois Department of Mental Health, will report directly to the President. The appointment is a sign of Nixon's seriousness: Jaffe is a leading expert on methadone therapy for heroin addicts and a major figure in research on drug abuse...
...treatment and rehabilitation of addicted Viet Nam veterans. What Nixon proposed, and quickly put into effect last weekend at Cam Ranh Bay and Long Binh, is a program that will subject all G.I.s to urine tests before they return to the U.S. to ascertain whether they have been using heroin or amphetamines. Those found to be on drugs will be given a week of detoxification before they are sent home. If Congress approves, they will also receive an additional three weeks of mandatory therapy in the U.S. at Veterans Administration facilities...
Detroit police are at an impasse. Until November of last year, they did little more than harass heroin dealers. Standard procedure for closing down a dope house then was called a "tip over": acting on tips, the police would raid a house without a warrant, demanding entry in hopes of scaring the pusher into flushing the dope down the toilet or tossing it out the window. Many arrests resulted-9,143 in 1970-but only 1,500 ever reached trial...
...success. Since November, more than 300 quarter houses and shooting galleries have been closed, and 1,600 arrests have resulted in 1,432 cases brought to trial. Still, as Sergeant Sam Campbell, chief of the Fifth Precinct's narcotics squad, admits: "We haven't begun to control heroin...