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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... received a type of discharge undesirable , bad conduct or dishonorable -- that rendered them ineligible for treat- ment in a Veterans ' Administration facility . We do not know how many of these 16,000 may have been hard- core drug ...
... received a type of discharge undesirable , bad conduct or dishonorable -- that rendered them ineligible for treat- ment in a Veterans ' Administration facility . We do not know how many of these 16,000 may have been hard- core drug ...
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... received no care or attention from the Veterans ' Administration . So this is really not a new problem we focus on today . Yet the Government's response so far has been to open five Veterans ' Admin- istration drug dependence units ...
... received no care or attention from the Veterans ' Administration . So this is really not a new problem we focus on today . Yet the Government's response so far has been to open five Veterans ' Admin- istration drug dependence units ...
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... receiving treatment from a VA facility . We must decide how most appropriately to change the law in order to render these men eligible for full treatment and rehabilitation . This can be done either by amending the laws so that ...
... receiving treatment from a VA facility . We must decide how most appropriately to change the law in order to render these men eligible for full treatment and rehabilitation . This can be done either by amending the laws so that ...
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... received , I think , is that the addiction problem in the Armed Services is a new problem , starting from the time of the Vietnam conflict , but from what you say , you were hooked in Korea , and it was pretty readily available to you ...
... received , I think , is that the addiction problem in the Armed Services is a new problem , starting from the time of the Vietnam conflict , but from what you say , you were hooked in Korea , and it was pretty readily available to you ...
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... received any information from the service on drug addiction or anything . I would also like to say that a very good friend of mine last week killed himself . He was an ex - GI , and I am here for him too . Senator CRANSTON . Was there ...
... received any information from the service on drug addiction or anything . I would also like to say that a very good friend of mine last week killed himself . He was an ex - GI , and I am here for him too . Senator CRANSTON . Was there ...
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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.
Page 146 - States at any time after September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of the present war, and who shall have been discharged or released from active service under conditions other than dishonorable, after active service of...
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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.