When peggy night moved into this house we thought it was just a normal place where we could do some acid, s out there is a lot of shooting up going on, some people were using heroin to a point of not being able to trust each other. The work wasnt getting done. We began to lie to each other. Peggy and i took a stand against hard narcotics, we call the house meeting. The house members agreed that we would have no more heroin in the house. Some people found these grubs to groovy to give up, and it disrupted the whole house. children singing a community is destroyed by heroin, and to most of us its a new inststitution, that is being destroyed at alarming frequency. The american home,narcotics and their relatives, amphetamines and perpetuates, rip apart family life and every social and economic level. The traffic aftermath fills hospitals and prisons, rehabilititation Centers Across the country. Dg use is vastly complex, the drugs are body and burd. Per ses Information Available to us does not exist, or it is cloaked in mid and controversy drug users do not fit in any comfortable grouping, they are young and old. They are disadvantaged. I do the hard narcotics for escape. I do the more psychedelic drugs for learning it wasnt enough for me to smoke, i need something else. The drugs you do in vietnam its a strange thing, its hard to describe like drugs are very prevalent there. They are all over the place. You can go out and pick marijuana. I was very near us nervous, uptight and lost a little girl. After i turned on, i may not have found the answer to everything, but at least it didnt seem such an immediate danger to me. Hoin is a pain killer, it kills our pain. It kills anxiety, it kills boredom it produces pleasure, just based on the drug itself and nothing else. Got to the point where everything i did, everything i made clear i poured into the habit. Im in a drug culture one time it was considered unusual anyone under the age of 16 to be dealing with drugs. And now its not uncommon for even six graders. And on the west coast, drug indulgence is 70 of the student population. But it can be rebuilt the man that stands on the center of rebuilding our operation, and look at drugs abuses is doctor. The name of the program is real possibility the estimated 100,000 narcotic ethics. And the eestimated half million, persons in the United States who regularly, abuse non narcotic drugs. Because drug abuse, and drug depeency, isis apparently the result of physical, psychological social, and other factors. The research supported by the National Institute of mental health, are carried out directly by the National Institute of health, look at the mechanism of drug action on the addicting qualities of new drugs, and how they act in the body. Two studies of social papatterns of drug abuse, as well as studies of new methods of treatment and rebut rehabilitation. In kentucky, the town first and foremost associated with the treatment treatment of narcotic bag attics the first patient w was admitted in 1935, the federal hospital in lexington, have carried the brunt of caring for these little understood and often feared, and much maligned american dope attics for decades these hospitals thehemselves have been maligned and misunderstood. They have often been cited as prime examples of how hopeless it is to treat, much less secure an attic it is well to remember, that these institutions were only a first step in societies and lighting policy towards the drug attic while still bars and barred windows look at the side of our judgment, national conscienc and research have looked at rehabitation since 1967 many changes have taken place the bars a the grills, have been removed taking emphasis off the custodial rospects. The hospital now called the Clinical Research center, and administered by the National Institute of mental health, has intensified its research into rehabilitation. One techniquebasic too many treatment methods, is encouraging attics to help attics. By working together, playing together and just being together withihin the same complex, at lexington is another center, this one engaged in Addiction Research its mission is to investigate the nature of the drugs themselves are understanding of the scientific working of drugs there, they are physical effects on people what changes they cause in the body, are questions to which we have few precise answers have another sure why not its free. Patients from the Clinical ResearchCenter Volunteer for a variety of kit of tests. Looking at the intake of drugs. To the outsider these tests may appear meaningless and from a conservative point of view, immoral. However, they bring us closer to a clear understanding of the chemical relationship between body and agent. Whether the agent is marijuana, marijuana cigarette, synthetic drug or one of the opioids as highly sophisticated equipment measures the concentration of drug molecules within the body. This enables the researcher to compare what he sees in human behavior, with what the instrument reveals the drug is doing to the bodies organs, tissues, and chemistry. Experiments such as these, they have made a record in unmasking this the addictive nature of the barbecue, its certain tranquilizers and even perform pioneering work in the understanding of alcoholism while lexingtons outpost in the wilderness of Drug Research was amasassing information on te attic and on the drug, little else, little else in the country was being done during the forties in the fifties, more and more peop felt fell victim not only to heroin, but a host of synthetics well long used as a means of temporary skate from the ghetto, marijuana in 1963, became one of the symbols the youth and revolution. Our criminal statutes became harsher the statues became harder, there was no difference between selling a deck of heroin, or selling marijuana in a college dorm. But in the 1960s, they are alsoo signs of progress in both the understanding of the attics problems, and in the law. Our narcotics laws have created a web, which the attics need for money, the two crimes. Crimes which reinforces the punitive enforcement of the naotics law, and thus drives the attic deeper, and deeper into secret behavior and fear. California started a commitment program, the first date to do so. Even though high fences and barbed wire were reminders that they were still prisoners, the accident was not on punishment but rather treatment. Aside from early federal programs in lexington in fort worth, it was the first time the Public Institution was used to treat attics, instead of just confining them. New york, 1962, the metcalf act allowed many of them to elect for hospital treatments instead of prison state prison sentences. The first major law, to look at the attics problem and restore him to his community the rehabilitation act of 1966, allows the defendant in certain criminal cases to elect treatment instead of punishment including an extensive program, of aftercare under the supervision of the certain general the first establish place in santa monica, was the most publicized of the self help guru. From california to new york, to chicago each establishing his own thepeutic community. Residential therapeutic, if i may explain it its ing livingsituation, in which people go through all kinds of emotional changes, drug addiction of course is not a physicalproblem it is an emotional problem that is what we approach. These communities, the attic is first taken off drugs. By the cold turkey, or by the medicated withdrawal then starts the long humbling process of living shoulder to shoulder, with other atti ople who have made it people, who have little sympathy with members who refuse to be honest with themselves. Why dont you be honest with him. You cant even talk you explode every time you talk. And you sit there your boiling inside, you could boiling your whole life youve got a cop out your copout. Are you afraid . These are the residents, of new yorks detente village, a private Therapeutic Community supported by federal and state, and municipal funds. Graduates of daytime, up master forfar more than their past craving for drugs. They learn a new lifestyle, centered around helping others. Bettering their communities. When they return to the street, the day top graduate will be a force for action in his neighborhood, even if its only rallying people to clean up their block. Some of their by products are surprirising, and they are exciting. Go this is the stage a feeder stage. Where they reenact their actions. Doug i am angry im angry. No no. Im angry. Rehabilitation during the 1960s, sawa decade of experimentation. Charleston errol a approaches, that sought to sometimes they found cures through group therapy, through computers and through the test tube. In chicago a young father of two children, hopelessly addicted to heroin, forced to steele to force his to support his habit, opens the door to possible hope. This is the methadone may tenants approach. Still in the experimental stage, methadone is administered in fruit juice. As a substitute for heroin, yet satisfy the junkies needs for drugs it is addictive, but spares the user the harmful effects. The programs chief sponsor, is doctor vincent dole, of new yorks rockefell university. We estimate conservatively i think, every patient that we treat saves the community, 40,000 dollars a year. In goods that are not stolen, neighborhoods that are not spoiled, and families that are not abandoned. Methadone maintenance, and other treatments in the program has its critics. There is no way in my opinion, that a person who is drugged, a personon on methadone is drugged, can really take a look at himself. Most method on proponents are considered irrelevant, that is the patient never comes off the drug. What they make the point they make is, theyre rapidly returning to society and able to cope with responsibility. The cost is an inspective inexpensive administered glass of orange juice. Another clinical approach, is a narcotic antagonist, blocking the effects of heroin as it tries to act upon the central nervoous system. There are other approaches, Neighborhood Centers like exodusus house, and slums concentrate on the period what is needed most during active care as another valid treatment approaches, ex attics who have begun to take back their lives, helping them through each day, arriving to work on time, and learning the day today lifestyle the rest of us take so much for granted. In time, many of them will be eased back into their communities, stronger perhaps for their experience. Key after care is one of the most phases for restoring addict to a useful life, they know his patient and his daily routine. You might go to work and all of a sudden you used to handle 25 cartons a day, the boss gives you 30 cartons. And you think i have to handle 30 curtains. You can be free from drugs for five six seven months, and all of sudden you want to reward yourself. Wow, ive been clean for x months. Im doing great. Im making money, i have money in the bank, my wife loves me, my kids love me. And this happens, these are the things that you have to deal with. But the point that i want to brbring up is that if use dont be afraid to come bacack and tel us. Because that is what we are there for. These programs are important but even more important is prevention. Ten years ago drug use among the young was concentrat in the ghetto, we thought at that time that eliminating the slums would eliminates that aspect of the drug problem. But the answers not so simple. Drug abuse, including heroin in a right range of nthetics have sprung up in upper middle class families as well. Here affluence is a lifestyle, the pressur and lifestyles of the ghetto are unknown. Perhaps there are anxieties in the suburbs, anxieties of a different natature. It is like a fortress to protect this all White Community of 40,000 people who live in one of three models of housing. It is not a fortress, it is like a prison uptight shallow people. The only food further brain is television and booze and adultery. Everyone has money. There is no identity and money. You say i have more money or less money, that is not identity that is quantity. Everyone has mass produced products, detroit makes 5 million cars all the same. The trouble is that youth is rejecting our values and uses more than rhetorical to express dissatisfaction. The 60 miles per hour, i pulled his car over and asked him to produce his drivers license and he did not hav one. I immediately arrested him and frisked him and on his person i found a bag of white powder that has been analyzed by the crime lab. The do you still listen they are going to send you three to seven years in the state penitentitiary. Yes sir. Another hippie convicted on a dark arctic charge. Why should we be concerned . Why . Because in a few years those under 25 will make up have one half of our population. That marijuana among college kids is just one drug in one population group, but it serves to illustrate that our interest as a nation has been more than somewhat hypocritical. It seems as though the college kids, the middle class kids,suddenly discovered middle rwanda in the mid sixties. Up until that time, i am a eeled exclusively with the gross, just musicians, and latinos, who gave a about them so we