Early in 1967, the Office of Economic Opportunity was authorized to formulate and carry out programs for the prevention of narcotic addiction and the rehabilitation of narcotic addicts. Such programs were required to include provisions for the detoxification, guidance, training and job placement of narcotic addicts. The programs were aimed at…

Methadone maintenance is a relatively new method for treating heroin addiction. Controversy and questions remain about the drug itself and its use of methadone. The author was engaged by The Drug Abuse Council to prepare these descriptions of four methadone programs and the accompanying summary. The evolution of these programs is examined, and the…

Research for this guidebook was initiated with the purpose of examining the goals, policies, content and materials and anti-drug programs currently being implemented in schools and communities in order to: 1) highlight successful practices of drug education; 2) devise criteria useful to educators in establishing, evaluating, and revising anti-drug…