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Task Force on Narcotics and Drug Abuse [Published date: 1967]. Soft cover, 158 pp.
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In good condition. Blue paper covers with white lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light to moderate overall scuffing, soiling and aging to covers as well, with a small scuffed patch on rear cover where a price sticker was removed. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes laid-in cover letter from Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, dated June 21, 1967. Contents include: Narcotics and Drug Abuse; The Drugs and Their Regulation; Enforcement; Drug Abuse and Crime; Penalties; Marihuana; Treatment; Civil Commitment; Medical Practice and Addiction; Education; Appendices: Mind-altering Drugs and Dangerous Behaviour : Dangerous Drugs by Richard H. Blum (Assisted by Mary Lou Funkhouser-Balbaky); Mind-Altering Drugs and Dangerous Behaviour: Narcotics by Richard H. Blum (assisted by Lauraine Braunstein); Drugs, Dangerous Behavior, and Social Policy by Richard H. Blum; Proposals for Dangerous Drug Legislation by Michael P. Rosenthal; Report on the Treatment of Drug Addiction by Jonathan O. Cole; Civil Commitment of Narcotic Addictss and Sentencing for Narcotic Drug Offenses by Dennis S. Aronowitz. [from Foreword] In February of this year the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice issued its general report: "The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society." Chapter 8 of that report made findings and recommendations relating to narcotics and drug abuse. That chapter is reprinted at the beginning of this volume, with the addition of annotations to indicate source materials considered. In addition, this volume contains a number of the papers submitted to the Commission by outside consultants. Some material from these papers was used as background documentation in the preparation of the chapter, and they are believed to be of interest and value as source material. But this volume does not in any sense embody a comprehensive treatment of the complex and important problems of drug abuse. Limitations on our resources and the fact that another presidential commission with specific responsibility for these problems had recently issued its report led the Commission to limit the scope and depth of its work in this area. . .