Treatment and Rehabilitation of Narcotic Addicts: Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate

Creator:
Daniel, Price (Marion Price) (19101010-19880825)
O'Mahoney, Joseph C. (Joseph Christopher), 1884-1962
Butler, John Marshall, 1897-1978
Welker, Herman
Eastland, James O.
Title:
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Narcotic Addicts: Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
Date:
25 April 1956
Description:
This report summarized preliminary findings and recommendations of the subcommittee on Improvements in the Federal Criminal Code. The subcommittee, chaired by Texas senator Price Daniel, counseled against any type of "ambulatory" addiction treatment, whether through clinics or individual physicians, and recommended that voluntary admissions to the federal narcotic farms be ended, so that addicts would have to go through the justice system to get treatment.
Rights:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Genre:
Legislative records
Format:
Text
Extent:
23 pages
Language:
English
NLM ID:
9918351284206676X265
Profiles Collection:
The Lawrence Kolb Papers
Shareable Link:
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918351284206676X265
Story Section:
Post-PHS Career, 1944-1972
Exhibit Tags:
post_PHS