Here’s a 20-minute documentary clip that aired on CBC’s Close-Up on 13 May 1959. It features reporter Jack Webster looking into the issue of drug addiction in Vancouver and includes interviews with an addict, a druggist, a coroner, and a drug squad detective. The drug issue was in the news after three young men died from heroin overdoses.
Addicts in the 1950s were subjected to more vigorous enforcement of drug laws than anytime since, yet the police themselves felt their efforts were futile against the drug menace. In this clip, Detective Al Shepard echoes a defeatist proposal made earlier in the decade by Chief Constable Walter Mulligan that addicts should be segregated from society, maybe on some island. Until then, it’s “just the same thing, day in and day out” for the drug squad.
How little things change.
There are many rehabilitation centers running in United States and they provide the effective and successful drug addiction treatment for addicted people who want to get rid of their addiction. This addiction treatment is helpful and gives the addicts a complete drug addiction recovery or drug free life.
http://www.addiction-treatments.com/addiction/Drugs/index.html