Social Behavior, Public Policy, and Nonharmful Drug Use," Millbank Quarterly - Winick - 1991 () Citation Context ...ly” (Erickson and Weber, 1998: 291; see also Mugford, 1991: 41). A survey of US soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam found that later they were no more likely than ...
That was during the luscious war years when the Army Surgeon General's Office and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were not only acting as promoters for the Drug Trust, but were actually forcing drug trust poisons into the blood streams of American soldiers, sailors and marines, to th...
The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 64,070 people died from drug overdoses in 2016. That's a 21 percent increase over the year before. Approximately three-fourths of all drugoverdose deathsare now caused byopioids— a class of drugs that i...
The Refugee Act of 1980 answered the obvious need in post-Vietnam America for an updated immigration policy. The legislation amended the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, raising the annual refugee cap from 17,400 to 50,000 and putting in place...
Captivated by Captagon The word captagon, coincidentally, is a mix of the words “captivate” and “Pentagon” – interesting given the addictive nature of the drug and the potential US role in providing it. War and drugs have a long history together, whether it be because the soldiers are ...
the thousands of soldiers who returned from Vietnam addicted to heroin were a cause for concern, both for the effects of chronic opioid use on users' health and for the social harms of homelessness and other dysfunctions attending that use. The crack crisis of the 1980s added a wrinkle, in...
For example, during the Vietnam War, the military estimated that forty percent of all infantrymen were addicted to heroin. The enemy was indistinguishable from civilians. Combat was often by ambush. As in other wars, soldiers watched their friends die and were sometimes wounded themselves. Heroin...
The U.S. military, which developed the drug after the Vietnam War, maintains that Lariam is safe and effective, though officials have expressed some concern and the military tells its pilots not to take Lariam. In written guidance on the drug last year, the military urged commanders to send...
U.S. customs officers at Niagara Falls found $75-million worth of heroin in the false bottom of a suitcase two Vietnamese-born couriers were taking to New York. Police in Regina in Saskatchewan discovered a basement lined with aluminum foil where a forest of marijuana was growing hydroponical...
Rockefeller died - who had been one of the loudest hawks in the Vietnam and other American wars, and was personally responsible for the massacre of prisoners and hostages at Attica prison - Time said of him in it obituary, without laughing: "He was driven by a mission to serve, improve ...