Jerome Jaffe

Jerome H. Jaffe was the Drug Czar under the administration of President of the United States Richard Nixon.[1]

Career

Under the administration of President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), an executive agency created by President Nixon, a member of the Republican Party of the United States. During his career, he popularized the use of methadone treatments for heroin addicts,[2] stating that "There was evidence that methadone treatment was effective. There were some good controlled studies." He also initiated "methadone programs, detoxification programs, and therapeutic communities."[3]

Currently, Jaffe is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he works in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/carfax/cadd/1999/00000094/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=c56wp7c89pgj.alexandra
  2. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/jaffe.html
  3. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/jaffe.html
  4. ↑ http://www.dana.org/news/author.aspx?id=10254

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