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...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...
...source of the problem, as Nixon recognizes, lies in the countries where opium is grown and processed into heroin, and he is stepping up efforts to win their cooperation. He is also requesting $10 million for improved education and training in the field of drugs at home. "We need an expanded effort to show that addiction is all too often a one-way street," he told Congress. "It is essential that the American people are alerted to this danger, to recognize that it is not a danger that will pass with the end of the war in Viet Nam, because...
...disclaimer, the problem has been greatly accelerated by the war. Officially, the estimates are that between 26,000 and 39,000 G.I.s use hard drugs. New York Congressman Seymour Halpern, just back from Viet Nam, puts that figure as high as 60,000, most of them on heroin. There are an estimated 250,000 addicts in the U.S. Some authorities believe that if 75% of them supported their habit by committing crimes the cost to the country would exceed $8 billion yearly. With the return of the addicted veterans, the cost of heroin in dollars, in violence and more subtly...
Archaic Thinking. The approaches to eliminating heroin have too long been sporadic, diffused and confused. The President's program is only a first step, but it is a good one. Nixon's program heralds a more sympathetic approach to the addict's problems. Says one of its architects: "As the notion of the right to rehabilitation evolves into the consciousness of America, it will get us away from the archaic thinking that the drug addict is an evil character." It may also end, or at least curb, the spread of addiction. There is an urgency...