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...study asserts that narcotics dependence among returned veterans is no higher than it is among those who did not serve. In a finding that is bound to raise eyebrows among drug experts, the report also implies that heroin addiction, far from being incurable, is a habit that many people simply outgrow...
Last May Dr. Robins obtained a list of the 13,240 G.I.s who had returned to the U.S. in September 1971 during the height of the heroin crisis in Viet Nam. She selected a random sample of 470 names and added another 495 names from a list of soldiers found in tests to have used drugs. Her assistants then conducted more than 900 interviews and obtained urine samples for evidence of drug usage. Their findings were such welcome news to the Pentagon that it embraced the study after learning the preliminary results. Of all the returnees interviewed, only 1.3% were...
...used narcotics in Viet Nam stopped as soon as they left; of those who continue to use drugs after their return, most insist that they are not addicted. Says Dr. Robins, who seems too casual about the use of a dangerously addictive drug: "Some of our data suggest heroin can be used as a plaything. Some people use it just a little...
...apparent discrepancy between Dr. Robins' conclusion and the experience of drug experts in ghettos may be partially explained by another of her findings: of the heroin users in Viet Nam, only 8% injected the drug. The others smoked or sniffed it. But drug usage among returned veterans could still be a bigger problem than the report indicates. Even Dr. Robins admits that "it may be too soon to be completely confident that the risk of serious addiction is as small as it now appears...
...them, only three have been returned to prison. One Viet Nam veteran who faced a year for selling amphetamines got out after two months and claims, "There is no chance I'll ever be in trou ble again." A 19-year-old sentenced to ten years for selling heroin was surprised by "how good they all were to me - the judge, the public defender, every one." Says his mother: "We thought we had lost him completely...