Treatment and Rehabilitation of Narcotics Addicts: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First [and Second] Session[s] ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 |
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Addict Rehabilitation Act Administration aftercare agencies amended amphetamines analgesics authorized barbiturates believe bill centers Chairman charge civil commitment programs civilly committee confinement Congress Controlled Substances Act convicted court crime criminal proceeding determination DK DK DK drug abuse drug addiction drug dependent person Education EDWARDS effective eligible examination facilities Federal Government Fort Worth funds going hearing heroin addicts high school hospital individual institutional custody involuntary commitment JAFFE legislation Lexington lieu marihuana McCLORY ment methadone maintenance methedrine million months MURPHY NARA Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation narcotic drugs offense parole patient pep pills percent period petition prison problem prosecution Public Health Service question regular users rehabilitated through treatment RODINO SANDMAN Secretary sentence social subcommittee substance supervision Surgeon tion treat treatment and rehabilitation treatment programs U.S. attorneys United States attorney United States Code veterans WIGGINS York
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Page 669 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 642 - ... from financial loss arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of alleged negligence or other act resulting in accidental bodily injury to any person within or without the school building, provided such teacher or member of the supervisory or administrative staff at the time of the accident or injury was acting in the discharge of his duties within the scope of his employment...
Page 74 - ... (3) An offender against whom there is pending a prior charge of a felony which has not been finally determined or who is on probation or whose sentence following conviction on such a charge, including any time on parole or mandatory release, has not been fully served : Provided, That an offender on probation, parole, or mandatory release shall be included if the authority authorized to require his return to custody consents to his commitment.
Page 25 - Physicians appointed by the court to examine any person pursuant to this title and counsel assigned by the court to represent any person, in judicial proceedings under this title shall be entitled to reasonable compensation, in an amount to be determined by the court, to be paid, upon order of the court, out of such funds as may be provided by law.
Page 119 - Convention. The High Contracting Parties shall, if they have not already done so, create a special administration for the purpose of : (a) Applying the provisions of the present Convention; (b) Regulating, supervising and controlling the trade in the drugs ; (c) Organising the campaign against drug addiction, by taking all useful steps to prevent its development and to suppress the illicit traffic.
Page 326 - To be sure, imprisonment for ninety days is not, in the abstract, a punishment which is either cruel or unusual. But the question cannot be considered in the abstract. Even one day in prison would be a cruel and unusual punishment for the "crime
Page 50 - Post, p, 1243. dependence, or both, arising from the use of that substance on a continuous basis. Drug dependence is characterized by behavioral and other responses which include a strong compulsion to take the substance on a continuous basis in order to experience its psychic effects...
Page 38 - convicted" mean the final judgment on a verdict or finding of guilty, a plea of guilty, or a plea of nolo contendere, and do not include a final judgment which has been expunged by pardon, reversed, set aside, or otherwise rendered nugatory. (f) "Eligible offender...
Page 286 - addict" means 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 habit-forming narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction...
Page 147 - Mr. Chairman, and members of the subcommittee, I wish to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today in support of planning funds for the Eau Galle River flood control project.