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Show 21 LAW AND ORDER widespread the problem of drug abuse is in the armed services; 30-40,000 of our Armed Forces in Vietnam addicted to heroin in one form or another; an addiction rate of 10-15 per cent among draftees serving in Vietnam; and estimates that the drug experi ments among our service men may run as high as 80 per cent, com pared with about 50 per cent among U. S. civilian youth generally." ... In • 1970, there was a total of 160 Armed Forces.w There is also the ate abuse. drug related deaths in our pressing problem of amphetamine and barbiiu Of the estimated eight billion doses of amphetamines produced annually, approximately one-half of them find their way into illicit • channels of distribution." The N. Y. State Narcotic Addict Control Commission reports • that pep pills, amphetamines and amphetamine-like the most abused drug in the State." compounds are • In California, juvenile arrests for criminal violations involving dangerous drugs, particularly barbituates and amphetamines, have increased an incredible 3,316 per cent during the past decade.22 • A national study of secondary schools indicates that 15 per cent of the students have abused barbituates." An more than alarming number of people rely on prescriptions for tranqui prescription drugs to live a normal life. lizers and other • According to Bertram S. Brown, Director of the National In Health, of all prescriptions filled in 1967, 17 per of them were written for psychotropic drugs.>' stitute of Mental cent Results of a survey taken in one state on the use of psycho tropic drugs indicated that about one adult in four took such a drug in the preceding 12 months and about half had taken them at • some time in their lives.25 Legal psychotropic drugs were used most often in the over-20 principally during ages 40 to 59. However, younger adults tended to use more of the stimulant drugs for appetite con trol or antiobesity purposes, while sedatives and hypnotics were used more extensively in the over-40 age group.w • age group, |
