Evaluating the Federal Effort to Control Drug Abuse: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 1271 pages |
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Page 84 - The primary responsibility for designing a prevention strategy and operating appropriate programs should reside at the state and local levels. Each state should establish a comprehensive, statewide drug dependence prevention program including a full range of prevention services attuned to the needs of local communities and designed to reduce the likelihood that an individual or class of individuals will become drug dependent.
Page 243 - There is every indication that, except for very occasional panic reactions, assaultive, antisocial behavior is not increased and may be reduced. HASHISH Hashish is produced by scraping the thick resinous material secreted by the flowers of the marijuana plant (cannabis sativa). The Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the LeDain Commission) concluded in its interim report on cannabis that, among non-industrial countries where cannabis use is widespread, it is not a significant...
Page 85 - To avoid institutionalizing the drug "problem," the concept and accomplishments of the Single Agency should be reexamined four years after its creation ; and the agency itself, by law, should disband within five years, its surviving components being reassigned to the agencies or departments from which they came (or into others more appropriate), and integrated with the larger social concerns of those organizations.
Page 243 - ... the United States, particularly heroin use, increases the probabilities that an individual will engage in acquisitive crimes or other criminal behaviors, most of which are directly related to supporting the drug habit. However, the available evidence indicates that users of opiates are significantly less likely to commit homicide, rape and assault than are users of alcohol, amphetamines and barbiturates. While there are no data directly comparing the criminal proclivities of opiate users with...
Page 79 - The Commission recommends that the unauthorized possession of any controlled substance except marihuana for personal use remain a prohibited act. The Commission further recommends that as a matter of statutory or enforcement policy, assertion of control over the consumer should not be tied to concepts of criminal accountability but rather to concepts of assistance appropriate in the individual case. The primary purpose of enforcement of the possession laws should be the detection and selection of...
Page 234 - Crime 28-38 (cannabis); 70-72 (hallucinogens) (October 1972) (consultant's report prepared for the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse; to be released Summer 1973 as part of Appendix to National Comm'n on Marihuana & Drug Abuse, Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective (2d report 1973) [hereinafter cited as Tinklenberg]). Jared Tinklenberg, MD, a Stanford University psychiatrist familiar with all the research on the relationship between drugs and crime, surveyed the available literature...
Page 81 - STATE 1. Each state should establish a comprehensive statewide drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation program including integrated health, education, information, welfare and treatment services, which should be administered as part of the state's broader health care delivery and human resources development systems. The program should: (a) Provide a full range of treatment and rehabilitation services throughout the state, including emergency, residential, and outpatient services for drug-dependent...
Page 84 - Policy makers should, in recognition of ignorance about the impact of drug education, seriously consider declaring a moratorium on all drug education programs in the schools, at least until programs now in operation have been evaluated and realistic objectives have been developed.
Page 76 - State 1. All states should attempt to rationalize the operation of the criminal justice system as a process for identifying drug-dependent persons and for securing their entry into a treatment system. The states should establish, as part of the comprehensive prevention and treatment program, a separate treatment process which runs parallel to the criminal process and which may be formally or informally substituted for the criminal process.
Page 81 - ... admission or treatment, solely because of their drug abuse or drug dependence, by any private or public general hospital that receives support in any form from any federally funded program.