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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... personnel and train them to communicate with GI's about drugs . We would of course be doing this in cooperation and in coordina- tion with professionals and with people with different levels of ex- pertise . I suggest this type of ...
... personnel and train them to communicate with GI's about drugs . We would of course be doing this in cooperation and in coordina- tion with professionals and with people with different levels of ex- pertise . I suggest this type of ...
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... personnel . Our attempt to offer the realistic view of the addict will be com- bined with our feelings of some positive approaches to this destruc- tive phenomenon . The drug problem has no easy answers , chemical or otherwise . It is ...
... personnel . Our attempt to offer the realistic view of the addict will be com- bined with our feelings of some positive approaches to this destruc- tive phenomenon . The drug problem has no easy answers , chemical or otherwise . It is ...
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... personnel in Southeast Asia . They should provide a report as soon as possible on the nature and extent of the problem . Although heroin addiction in Vietnam may not be as widespread as the above estimates indicate , it remains a most ...
... personnel in Southeast Asia . They should provide a report as soon as possible on the nature and extent of the problem . Although heroin addiction in Vietnam may not be as widespread as the above estimates indicate , it remains a most ...
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... personnel are at hand to accomplish mass de- toxification . Maintaining the addict on methadone over a prolonged period of time produces a remission rate of 50 to 80 percent . Heroin hunger is diminished , and if heroin is injected the ...
... personnel are at hand to accomplish mass de- toxification . Maintaining the addict on methadone over a prolonged period of time produces a remission rate of 50 to 80 percent . Heroin hunger is diminished , and if heroin is injected the ...
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... personnel can be nonprofessional , and this , of course , re- duces the cost of the operation considerably , so that with professional backup and with professional consultation available , this brings the cost down to reasonable levels ...
... personnel can be nonprofessional , and this , of course , re- duces the cost of the operation considerably , so that with professional backup and with professional consultation available , this brings the cost down to reasonable levels ...
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Page 156 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
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Page 207 - The extent to which procedural due process must be afforded the recipient is influenced by the extent to which he may be "condemned to suffer grievous loss.
Page 375 - ... he is an addict and Is likely to be rehabilitated through treatment.
Page 401 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 389 - If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 381 - any person who habitually uses any habit-forming narcotic drugs so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is or has been so far addicted to the use of such habitforming narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction.