Drug Addiction and Abuse Among Military Veterans, 1971, Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Hospitals of ..., and Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare .... |
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... period of drug addiction . I entered the service in 1948 , June , fresh out of high school . I was sent to Japan and Korea , and this is where my drug proble began . I started off by smoking heroin . This was done with cigarettes . I ...
... period of drug addiction . I entered the service in 1948 , June , fresh out of high school . I was sent to Japan and Korea , and this is where my drug proble began . I started off by smoking heroin . This was done with cigarettes . I ...
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... period of 1953 to 1955 , that heroin sold up there for $ 10 a capsule . You can imagine if it sells for $ 1.50 here on the street in Washing- ton , what the prices were in 1953 and 1955 . Senator CRANSTON . Did you ever go to the VA for ...
... period of 1953 to 1955 , that heroin sold up there for $ 10 a capsule . You can imagine if it sells for $ 1.50 here on the street in Washing- ton , what the prices were in 1953 and 1955 . Senator CRANSTON . Did you ever go to the VA for ...
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... periods . Those in - port periods are where I got addicted . It started in the Philippines , and at every port of call that I made , Hong Kong , Taiwan , Japan , I found drugs very available . I want to say , too , that the men I served ...
... periods . Those in - port periods are where I got addicted . It started in the Philippines , and at every port of call that I made , Hong Kong , Taiwan , Japan , I found drugs very available . I want to say , too , that the men I served ...
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... period of a year . I will try to be pretty brief , but I was in Viet- nam , and the reason I was using drugs was because the 5th Regiment I was in , it caused one to need something to relieve the mind . The pressure was unendurable . I ...
... period of a year . I will try to be pretty brief , but I was in Viet- nam , and the reason I was using drugs was because the 5th Regiment I was in , it caused one to need something to relieve the mind . The pressure was unendurable . I ...
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... period where I cleaned up tem- porarily , but I continued the traffic in drugs . Senator HUGHES . How did you buy it ? How did you keep up with it ? Mr. ESTRADA . I was a dealer . Senator HUGHES . You were a dealer , that was the only ...
... period where I cleaned up tem- porarily , but I continued the traffic in drugs . Senator HUGHES . How did you buy it ? How did you keep up with it ? Mr. ESTRADA . I was a dealer . Senator HUGHES . You were a dealer , that was the only ...
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