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  The Federal Government's Response to Illicit Drugs, 1969-1978
The use of illicit drugs was, in general, identified as an antisocial gesture and was associated in the public's mind with mental illness and rising rates of street crime.
The principal federal agencies involved in the drug field during this period were the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the justice Department; and the Customs Bureau of the Treasury Department.
BNDD resisted the change, contending that such efforts should be carried out by state and local agencies, and it continued to go after the higher levels of the drug distribution systems.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/library/studies/fada/fada1.htm   (15213 words)

  
 §63-2-101.
Drug dependence is characterized by behavioral and other responses which include a strong compulsion to take the substance on a continuous basis in order to experience its psychic effects, or to avoid the discomfort of its absence; 16.
"Medical purpose" means an intention to utilize a controlled dangerous substance for physical or mental treatment, for diagnosis, or for the prevention of a disease condition not in violation of any state or federal law and not for the purpose of satisfying physiological or psychological dependence or other abuse; 25.
"Narcotic drug" means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: a.
oklegal.onenet.net /oklegal-cgi/get_statute?99/Title.63/63-2-101.html   (2135 words)

  
 UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1970 Issue 1 - 001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
This paper was prepared at the request of the United States Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and is published by permission; the views expressed are the personal judgments of the author.
Similarly treatment programmes have been designed almost without exception for drug dependence of morphine type (narcotic addiction), forgetting or overlooking that the person involved, the patient, may be using one or more other drugs or may turn his attention to other drugs in the course of treatment.
In drug dependence of morphine type the severity of the withdrawal sickness may be kept to a minimum by the oral administration of small doses of methadone [ 4], also reduced from day to day during the withdrawal.
www.unodc.org /unodc/fr/bulletin/bulletin_1970-01-01_1_page002.html   (5964 words)

  
 Biographies of DEA Agents and Employees Killed in Action
Narcotic Agent James E. Brown of the Bureau of Prohibition, U.S. Department of Treasury, was shot three times and killed near Isleton, California, on June 7, 1928, by a suspected Asian opium trafficker.
In June 1973, she joined DEA's predecessor agency, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs as a secretary and was responsible for assisting with the day to day support functions which are the key to successful enforcement operations.
Prior to joining BNDD, she was an accountant at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Montrose, New York, for two years, a contract accountant with the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., for fourteen years, and a secretary with the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Coral Gables, Florida, for two years.
www.dea.gov /agency/10bios.htm   (13211 words)

  
 frontline: drug wars: thirty years of america's drug war | PBS
Drug use becomes representative of protest and social rebellion in the era's atmosphere of political unrest.
At a press conference Nixon names drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United States." He announces the creation of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), to be headed by Dr.
A congressional subcommittee on Narcotics, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, chaired by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), finds that U.S. efforts to combat drug trafficking were undermined by the Reagan administration's fear of jeopardizing its objectives in the Nicaraguan civil war.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron   (3867 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Narcotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (or FBN) was an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury.
The FBN is credited for criminalizing drugs such as cannabis with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, as well as strengthening the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914.
Anslinger retired in 1962 and was succeeded by Henry Giordano, who was the commissioner of the FBN until it was merged with the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control to form the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1968.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bureau_of_Narcotics   (230 words)

  
 Notes: Introduction: The Consequences of Complicity
Statement of John E. Ingersoll, Director, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, before the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, New York City, February 24, 1972, p.
However, her strict narcotics laws (execution by firing squad for convicted traffickers) have discouraged the illicit opium traffic and prevented any of Iran's production from entering the international market.
In general, U.S. Bureau of Narcotics estimates have tended to underestimate the scope of illicit production in Southeast Asia, while the U.N. has tended to minimize production in South Asia, The statistics used above are compiled from both U.N. and U.S. Bureau of Narcotics figures in an attempt to correct both imbalances.
www.drugtext.org /library/books/McCoy/book/notesin.htm   (584 words)

  
 Committees on Drug Addiction & Narcotics 1928-1965
The objective of this group was to combine professional and lay educational programs in the use and abuse of narcotic drugs with efforts to stimulate the search for agents with little or no addiction liability that might be substituted for opium derivatives in medical practice.
The anticipated flood of new drugs threatened to overwhelm the limited resources of the hospital at Lexington and urgently called for the development of methods for the screening of drugs to identify those that were of considerable promise.
Bureau of Narcotics: Advisory Committee to Commissioner of Narcotics: 1960-1961
www7.nationalacademies.org /archives/Committees_on_Drug_Addiction.html   (2120 words)

  
 INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SURVEILLANCE AFFECTING AMERICANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Both the drug and "nondrug" watch lists of United States citizens were discontinued in 1973 as a result of questions concerning their legality and propriety, raised by the Justice Department and by NSA itself.
Although BNDD clearly was a law enforcement agency, NSA initially held that the intelligence it was supplying BNDD was a part of a legitimate USIB-approved effort to prevent drugs from entering the United States.
The danger in allowing the Office of Security to place names on a watch list is that the decision as to whether the activities of a particular individual are sufficiently suspicious to justify intrusion into the privacy of his communications is left in the hands of an interested party: the Office of Security itself.
www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIj.htm   (18675 words)

  
 DOJ: JMD: MPS: Functions Manual: Drug Enforcement Administration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The organization then was composed of personnel from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (Treasury Department) and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (Food and Drug Administration) of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
In 1973 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created by merging the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence, elements of the U.S. Customs Service that worked in drug trafficking intelligence and investigations, and the Narcotics Advance Research Management Team.
Seizure and forfeiture of assets derived from, traceable to, or intended to be used for illicit drug trafficking.
www.usdoj.gov /jmd/mps/manual/dea.htm   (300 words)

  
 About the Bureau of Narcotics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
To enforce the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substance Act as outlined in the Oklahoma Statute, Title 63; to train state and local law enforcement officers; and to compile drug-related statistics.
The regulatory functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (under the Oklahoma Attorney General) merged with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation's Drug Enforcement/Narcotics Unit in 1975 to create the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.
The Director is responsible for criminal investigation of violations of the Act; registration and regulation of all persons who legitimately manufacture, prescribe, dispense or handle controlled dangerous substances prior to delivery to the ultimate consumer; and coordination of the dissemination of information about the abuse of controlled dangerous substances.
www.odl.state.ok.us /sginfo/oksg/ok_narc.htm   (171 words)

  
 US CODE--TITLE 5--APPENDIX
One major element--the Bureau of Narcotics--is in the Treasury Department and responsible for the control of marihuana and narcotics such as heroin.
Another--the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control--is in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and is responsible for the control of dangerous drugs including depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens such as LSD.
I now propose that a single Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs be established in the Department of Justice to administer those laws and to bring to the American people the most efficient and effective Federal enforcement machinery we can devise.
www.access.gpo.gov /uscode/title5a/5a_4_86_2_.html   (734 words)

  
 Advertising Sobriety: Marijuana and the Televised War on Drugs
Opponents of marijuana usage believe that marijuana is gateway drug that leads to the abuse of more dangerous narcotics such as heroine and cocaine.
In 1968, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was created merging the FBN and the Bureau of Dangerous Drugs of the Food and Drug Administration.
It was widely acknowledged that the harsh laws of the 1950s had not eliminated the drug culture of the sixties and that the sentences imposed were often unduly harsh.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /biology/b103/f01/web1/clarke.html   (1554 words)

  
 The Brunswick News
He built the stereotypical Irish preoccupations with intoxicating chemicals and law into a 32-year career in police work capped by 27 years with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and its predecessor, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Giving up on his original goal of being an ATF agent, Shanahan next sold his skills to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which was apparently impressed with his mastery of the Spanish language.
In the 1950s and '60s, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was putting Mafia members in jail "when other agencies were denying the very existence of the Mafia," Shanahan said.
www.thebrunswicknews.com /front/279245200277967.php   (700 words)

  
 Narcotics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
UNDCP includes the Secretariat for the International Narcotics Control Board, which is responsible for the administration of treaties relating to the international control of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and...
designed to educate the community on the identification of narcotics and dangerous drugs and their ill effects.
Narcotics Anonymous is an international community-based association of recovering drug addicts.
www.health-nexus.com /narcotics.htm   (372 words)

  
 Walter E. Bothe page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Theodore graduated from Police Administration in June of 1957 and began his career as a federal narcotics agent, joining the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Cleveland and later with the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control in Detroit and Baltimore.
Theodore served in the capacity as the Deputy Regional Director for the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control.
In 1970, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs selected him to establish the nation’s first task force in New York City an independent narcotic enforcement entity acting as a “federal agency” with the collaboration of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the New York City Troopers.
www.cj.msu.edu /~career/alumni/wall/Vernier.htm   (204 words)

  
 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs directly preceded the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was a predecessor agency of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
It was formed as a subsidiary of the United States Department of Justice in 1968, combining the Bureau of Narcotics (under the United States Department of the Treasury) and Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (under the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Food and Drug Administration) into one agency.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bureau_of_Narcotics_and_Dangerous_Drugs   (134 words)

  
 Guidelines for cleaning up former meth labs
These basic guidelines are a cooperative effort of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics is responsible for tracking properties used as meth labs.
Be very careful in the use of bleach since hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, or other types of acid may react with the bleach and cause dangerous vapors to form.
www.deq.state.ok.us /LPDnew/MethLabs/meth.htm   (1485 words)

  
 US CODE--TITLE 5--APPENDIX
(b) All functions of the Bureau of Narcotics, of the Commissioner of Narcotics, and of all other officers, employees and agencies of the Bureau of Narcotics.
Subsection established the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the Department of Justice and provided that it be headed by a Director appointed by the Attorney General.]
The Bureau of Narcotics in the Department of the Treasury, including the office of Commissioner of Narcotics (21 U.S.C. [former] 161), is hereby abolished.
www.access.gpo.gov /uscode/title5a/5a_4_86_1_.html   (548 words)

  
 Security Outline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Established in 1973, DEA was the product of a merger of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, the Office of National Narcotic intelligence, elements of the Bureau of Customs, and those functions of the Office of Science and Technology which were drug enforcement-related.
A key element of this law is to improve control over the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of controlled substances by providing a "closed" system for legitimate handlers of these drugs.
The information presented here should acquaint drug handlers with security requirements set up under the CSA, the Diversion Control Amendments of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act 1984, and the Code of Federal Regulations.
www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov /pubs/manuals/sec/dea.htm   (251 words)

  
 OSCN Found Document:Terms Defined
"Distributor" means a commercial entity engaged in the distribution or reverse distribution of narcotics and dangerous drugs and who complies with all regulations promulgated by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control;
Drug dependence is characterized by behavioral and other responses which include a strong compulsion to take the substance on a continuous basis in order to experience its psychic effects, or to avoid the discomfort of its absence;
"Medical purpose" means an intention to utilize a controlled dangerous substance for physical or mental treatment, for diagnosis, or for the prevention of a disease condition not in violation of any state or federal law and not for the purpose of satisfying physiological or psychological dependence or other abuse;
www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeid=98848   (2803 words)

  
 OSCN Found Document:Question Submitted by: William R. , Department of Labor, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and ...
OSCN Found Document:Question Submitted by: William R., Department of Labor, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control
the Texas State Parole Board is not a federal agency; therefore, it is not an 'agency' within the meaning of the 5 U.S.C.A. ¶4 The Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs is a state agency.
¶5 It is, therefore, the official opinion of the Attorney General that the state criminal investigatory files of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs which are in the possession of that agency are not subject to the provisions of the Federal Freedom of Information and Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C.A. Citationizer
www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=53318   (381 words)

  
 TIME.com: Portrait of a Narc: Death Is Never Far Away -- Sep. 4, 1972 -- Page 1
THE 1,610 agents of the Justice Department's Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs are the advance scouts and front-rank skirmishers in the U.S.'s war on narcotics.
The BNDD agent's business is basically intelligence; he deals with small-time pushers and "mules" (couriers), as well as international traffickers, in any number of situations and any number of languages.
Japanese photographer Kosuke Okahara traces the dark path of drugs from the jungle of Colombia to the streets of Medellin and beyond
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,910392,00.html   (696 words)

  
 Drugs, The Law and The Future
Intended to eliminate use of narcotics except for legitimate medicinal use.
It argues that the idiosyncratic nature of Dutch drug policies can be explained by taking into account the peculiar evolution of the Netherlands ’ political institutions.
While it is argued that gedogen has functioned well for a number of years, doubts are expressed about the extent to which the Netherlands can be expected to continue to play the role of pioneer with respect to drug policies.
www.umsl.edu /~rkeel/180/law.html   (1160 words)

  
 DA0378   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Delegation of Authority--Registration and Acquisition of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Each Chancellor and Laboratory Director is authorized to sign all forms and documents required by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in connection with the acquisition and use of Controlled Substances.
This supersedes the delegations of authority set forth in the President's letter of May 12, 1971 to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and is effective immediately.
www.ucop.edu /ucophome/coordrev/da/da0378.html   (120 words)

  
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In response to a letter by me in opposition to drug prohibition which was
Woodward is spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
www.oklp.org /063005.html   (737 words)

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