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Federal officials concede that law enforcement alone is not enough. "To talk only in terms of eliminating the illicit drug supply is, in my judgment, a shortsighted approach," says John Ingersoll, the BNDD director. "What we need is a concomitant long-range program that will eliminate the demand." To that end, the bureau sends out speakers and brochures to teachers, school administrators and community leaders. In the New York City school system, drug education now starts in the fourth grade...
Irwin Tobin, who runs the New York City program, insists that "the drug problem was not created by the schools, and it will never be solved by the schools alone." He adds: "Some principals still don't think they have a problem, or just don't want to admit it." At Manhattan's Robert F. Wagner Junior High School, Principal Bernard Walker has group sessions for parents and kids, and every day he reads a news article about drugs over the school public address system. Are drugs available at Wagner? "I don't think so," Walker answers carefully...
...white middle class. They have lived with it for two decades in the ghetto, and they are rightly enraged when a Narcotics Bureau official says that it was a problem?"but it was one we could live with." A 20year-old in the New York City Phoenix House program, who started on heroin in Harlem at twelve, complains: "Up there it's easier to get it than to avoid it. This is a good reason why the blacks are so mad that the police don't bust all the very obvious pushers. They don't because they are paid...
...system allowed British physicians who were convinced that complete withdrawal would endanger the addict's physical and mental health to prescribe maintenance doses of the drug. This was permitted only if the addict patient could not be persuaded to undergo a cure or enter an institution. The program had one obvious advantage: by making drugs legally available, it eliminated the addict's dependence on black-market suppliers and made it unnecessary for him to steal to support his habit...
Another approach to the problem of heroin addiction is the methadone maintenance program. Pioneered in New York beginning in 1964 by Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander, the program involves switching an addict from heroin, which can cost $50 or more a day on the black market, to methadone, a synthetic substitute that can be made available legally for about 150 for a day's dosage. Administered as part of a total rehabilitation program involving counseling and therapy, methadone eases heroin withdrawal and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold...