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Considers legislation to revise narcotics law violation penalties, transfer Treasury Dept Bureau of Narcotics to Justice Dept, and establish PHS Division of Narcotics Clinics. Nov. 4 hearing was held in Lexington, Ky.; Nov. 7 and 8 hearings were held in NYC; Nov. 10 and 11 hearings were held in San Francisco, Calif.; Nov. 14 hearing was held in Seattle, Wash.; and Nov. 16 and 17 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.
In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction epidemic. Over the next five decades, the industry's leaders promised to rehabilitate the casualties of the drug culture even as incarceration rates for drug-related offenses climbed. In this history of addiction treatment, Claire D. Clark traces the political shift from the radical communitarianism of the 1960s to the conservatism of the Reagan era, uncovering the forgotten origins of today's recovery movement. Based on extensive interviews with drug-rehabilitation professionals and archival research, The Recovery Revolution locates the history of treatment a...