When i moved into this house we thought it was just a normal house where people were using grass. Maybe some speed we found out there was a lot of shooting up going on some people were using heroin to the point that we couldnt trust each other anymore the work wasnt getting done. We begin to lie to each other peggy and i took a stand against hard narcotics, we called a house meeting the house members agreed we wouldnt have any paraglider math in the house. Some people found these two drugs just to groovy to give up. It sort of destroyed the whole house. Now we build it up again. Now we build it up again, my fair lady the communal is destroyed by heroin most of us had more important and meaningful institution is also being destroyed at alarming frequency the american home. Narcotics and their relatives amphetamines and derbyshire its a family life every social and economic level we tried to get them in hospitals prisons Rehabilitation Centers across the country the entire question of drug use is vastly complex the drugs themselves are many and varied the precise Information Available to us when it does exist is often cloaked in mid and controversy drug usage do not fit in any comfortable grouping, they are young as well as old they are disadvantaged but often affluent, i do the hard narcotics for escape i do more interesting drugs the psychedelic drugs were learning. It wasnt enough for me to slow, i need Something Else the drug scene in vietnam is really a strange scene its hard to describe, drugs are very prevalent theyre all over the place marijuana you can gotten picket. I was very nervous uptight lost little girl and after i turned on i may not have found the answer to everything but at least it didnt seem in such immediate danger to me home was never the primary painkiller it pills mental physical anguish it kills anxiety it kills boredom it produces pleasure just based on the drug itself and nothing else. It got to the point where everything i did everything i made i put into the habit. The problem is im in a drug culture. At one time it was considered illegal for anyone under the age of 16 to be experimenting with drugs but now it is not uncommon to see it among sixth graders and in one well to do school on the west coast the drug experiment is among 70 of the student population. The house destroyed the house that can be rebuilt the man who stands at the Center Rebuilding operation shoulders much of the natures concern of the drop abuse darkly stanley f. The name of the National Program is to rehabilitate the estimated 100,000 narcotic attics and the estimated half million persons in the United States who regularly abuse non narcotic drugs because drug abuse and drug dependence is apparently the result of physical psychological and other factors the research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health or carried out directly by the National Institute of Mental Health must range from basic studies on the mechanisms of drug action, on the addicting qualities of how they act in the body to studies social patterns and drug abuse as well as studies of new methods of treatment and rehabilitation. In the heart of kentuckys bluegrass country the town first and sore foremost associated with the treatment of narcotic attics since the first presentation was admitted in 1935 this companion of caring for these little understood and often feared and much aligned with a paddocks. But decades these hospitals themselves have been maligned and misunderstood they have often been cited as prime examples of how hopeless it is to hope much less secure an addict. It is well to remember that when opened, these institutions were only a first step in societies and light and policy toward the drug habits. While steel bars and windows are necessary to enforce the punitive side of our judgment, National Conscience the first time suggested Research Treatment rehabilitation. Since 1967 many changes of taken place. The bars in the girls are being removed, taking emphasis off the custodial aspects. The hospital now called the Clinical Research center and administered by the National Institute of Mental Health has intensified its research into many approaches to rehabilitation one technique basic to many treatment methods is encouraging attics to help addicts by working together, playing together and just being together. Within the same complex is another center, this one engaged in Addiction Research its mission is to investigate the nature of the drugs themselves our understanding of the scientific working of drugs their physical effects on people what changes they cause in the body, are questions to which we have few precise. Answers patients from the Clinical ResearchCenter Volunteer for variety of tests to see the actual intake of drugs. To the outsider these tests may feel meaningless, and from a conservative point of view, how ever they bring us closer to a clear understanding of a chemical relationship between the body and the agent. Whether the agent is marijuana, synthetic drug, or one of the opiates. Highly sophisticated equipment measures the drug molecules in the body. This enables the researcher to compare what he sees and Human Behavior with what the instrument reveals the truck is doing to the bodies organs, tissues and chemistry. Experiments the Addiction Center has masked non addicting pharmaceuticals. To show the addictive performed pioneering work in the understanding of alcoholism. My lexingtons outpost in the wind wilderness and Drug Research was massive information on the addict and the truck, little else and the country was being done. During the forties and fifties more and more people were selling drugs, not only harrow heroin but synthetics. As a means of temporary escape from the ghetto, marijuana in 1963 became one of the symbols of the youth and revolution. Our criminal statutes became hostile penalties stiffer. There was virtually no difference in the eyes of law between selling a deck of her win on the Street Corner or selling marijuana in a college dorm. In the 1960s there were also signs of progress and both the understanding of the attics problem and in the lower. Narcotics knowledge of created which attics me for money to punitive enforcement of the narcotics law, the strives the addict deeper and deeper into secretiveness and fear. California started a civil commitment program. The first step to do so. Even though high princes and barbed wire was constant reminders that inmates were still prisoners, the accident was not on punishment for treatment. Aside from federal programs that lexington in fort worth, it was the first time that Public Institutions were used to treat attics and instead of just confining. Them, 1962, many of the states attics were allowed for treatment instead of president s prison sentences. First major federal law the attics problem and restore to his their narcotic addict rehabilitation act of 1966 allows the defendant and certain criminal cases to elect treatment instead of punishing them. Including an instance of program of aftercare on the supervision of the surgeon general. First established incentive monica is perhaps the most publicized of the self help private approaches. Rehabilitated addicts like don parker have carried on with philosophies another cities, california to new york, to chicago. Each establishing his own Therapeutic Community. President ial their Therapeutic Community is a 24 hour de living working situation in which people go through all kinds of emotional changes. Drug addiction of course is not a physical problem. It is an emotional problem. That is what we are approach. These communities, the addict is first taken off drugs, either cold turkey or gradual medicated withdrawal. And starts the long humbling process living shoulder to shoulder with other attics. People who have made it. People who have little sympathy with members who refused to be honest with themselves. Why dont you be honest with him . You cant even talk. Can you explode every time you talk. You sit there, your boiling, and youve been boiling your whole life. Are you afraid of him . These are the residents of new york state village. Private their pewter Community Supported by federal state and municipal funds. Graduates a day stop master have passed grieving for drugs. They learn a new lifestyle centered around helping others bettering their community. When he returns to the street, the day top graduate will be forced to action in his old neighborhood. Even if it is rallying people to clean up their blocks some update tops byproduct surprising and exciting. This is the stage of a theater were day top residents tell their story behind the footlights to come past the audiences and to critically a claim. I am angry. I am angry . I am angry i am angry i am angry rehabilitation during 1960 saw a decade of experimentation. Trials an error approaches that sought sometimes some cures through group therapy, through computers and through the test tube. And chicago, the young father of two children hopelessly addicted to heroin, forced to steele to support his habit, opens a door to possible hope. This is the methadone maintenance approach still. Any experimental stage methadone as administered and fruit juice as a substitute for heroin and at the same time satisfies the junkies needs for drugs and like heroin methadone is also addictive but spares the user the harmful effects. Doctor vincent dull the programs chief sponsor of rockefeller university. We estimate conservatively i think, with every patient that we treat, saves the community 40,000 dollars a year in goods that are not stolen. In neighborhoods that are not spoiled. Families that are not abandoned. Methadone maintenance as many other treatments and approaches has its critics. In my opinion a person who is drugged and personal methadone is drugged, can relieve take a look at himself. Mouth most methadone proponents are considered irrelevant because people most dont get off the truck. Attics reap rapidly return to society and are able to cope with responsibility. The cost, and inexpensive clinically administered glass of orange juice found a way to work. Another chemical approach to keep an eye ticked off drugs a sigh clays a scene. A narcotic antagonist blocking effects of heroin as a tries to act upon the Central Nervous system. There are other approaches Neighborhood Centers like exit is house to help in periods where needed most. As another violent treatment approaches, ecstatic to have begun to remake their lives work with residences to work through each day. Reporting to work, relearning simple day today lifestyles. The rest of uss take so much for granted. And time, many of them will be eased back into their communities, stronger perhaps because of their experience. After care is one of the most important phases of restoring a former addict useful life. The counsel knows the patient, knows the daily routine and are wary of pitfalls. Do you might argue with your wife, go to work and all of a sudden, where you used to handle 25 cottons a day, the box gives you 30 cottons, and this is another excuse to go. So im gonna go out and you dont. You can be free from trucks four five six seven months, and all of a sudden you want to reward yourself. Wow, ive been clean for six months. Im doing great im making money, of got money in the bank. My kids love me my wife loves. Me im gonna go out and get high. This happens. So these are the things you have to fear. The point i want to bring up is that if you do use, dont be afraid to come by and tell us. That is what we are there for. Programs are important but even more importantly is prevention. Ten years ago, drug use among the young was concentrated in the ghetto. We thought at that time of eliminating the slums and we would eliminate the aspect of the trump problem. The answer is not so simple drug abuse, like heroin and a wide range of synthetic drugs have sprung up in children of upper middle class as well. Here, affluence is a lifestyle and the pressures and the anxieties of the ghetto are hung down but perhaps there are anxieties in the suburbs. Anxieties of a different nature. Its like a fortress to protect this community of 40,000 people of total cultural starvation. Its like a prison of uptight showed people and the only food for their brain that they get is television and booze and adultery. And everyone has money. Theres no identity and money. You dont say i have more or less money. Its just quantities. The only thing you can do with monies mass produce products. And everyone has mass produced products. Detroit makes 5 million cars. The youth and protecting our values too often uses more than rhetoric to express dissatisfaction. An extensive rate of speed 65 miles an hour we ask him to reduce his license i mediately arrested him and searched him i found the back of white powder that has been analyzed are you pleading guilty, . This this court will send you to three to seven years of penitentiary. Yes sir thank you. Why should we be concerned . Why . Because in a few years, those under 25 will make up one half of our population. Marijuana among college kids is only one drug and one population growth but it serves to illustrate that our interests as a nation has been more and somewhat hypocritical. It seems as though the college kids, the middle class kids in this country suddenly discovered marijuana in the mid sixties. Up until that time, marijuana was used almost exclusively by knee grows Puerto Ricans and jazz musicians and who gave a about them so that we could have all kind of repressive laws and nobody would want to have anything to do with these people or look at the laws. But all at once, mrs. Murphy skin from the suburbs who was attending a Prominent University gets busted for marijuana. I can tell you from personal experience, ive had medical students, law students, kids going to scientific institutions on National Science glance. Ive got all kinds of people who have been arrested for marijuana violations. When this happens, suddenly, our society starts to become aware of a problem, so called. The entire question of drug use is vastly complex spreading across the boundaries of laws and societies attitudes. The source of the problem is a supple flower. A hearty plant, beautiful in their natural habitat astaire dangerous, often lethal and amused by man in his environment. After 60 centuries of abuse, societies added to this only now beginning to change. Beginning to bring enlightenment to our understanding of drugs and white people use them. They are beginning to realize the fact that there is no single bridge that will return the attic to society. There are many drug takers and each takes his journey to know for numerous and complex reasons. Bringing them back home requires many bridges. Many different approaches. Each designed to reach one segment of the drug dependent society. Where the solutions are found and the maintenance approach, a Therapeutic Community are not chaotic antagonist. One thing is certain we, we must continue to build bridges back into society. As many bridges as possible. Lets call them bridges from no place