but were actually forcing drug trust poisons into the blood streams of American soldiers, sailors and marines, to the tune of over 200 million 'shots'. Is it any wonder, asked Bealle, that the Rockefeller
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 ...
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...
or because the war itself is being fought over the land and fields that grow the drug-producing plants (Vietnamese and Afghani heroin, Latin American cocaine). In his articleCIA Drug Wars Could Explain Why Syrian ‘Rebels’, ISIS Violence Fuelled by Captagon Pills, journalist Patrick Henningsen...
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...
Opium becomes heroin trade, heroin smuggled through Thailand to Bangkok, sold to Chinese gangsters, makes its way, I think, to Vietnam right into the veins of the American troops there. [00:40:14] And then why the switch to meth? Is it just easier to transport and make or what? What...