... plenty. In retrospect, the act paved the road for federal awareness on drug abuse treatment. In 1971 President Richard Nixon asserted his war on drugs.2 Nixon's perspective reflected both the need to criminalize and sympathize, in the context of distribution and addiction. Nixon lead the first compelling federal funding treatment program in 1971 which funded the controversial methadone maintenance program. In ... his address to Congress on June 1971, he elaborated on supply and demand, as well as the obvious impossible eradication of drugs and drug users. In 1973 Nixon dispatched an enor...

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... liberal youth, civil rights activists, and the hippie movement with their adaptation of drug culture as a threat to American values. Thus, politicians such as Richard Nixon began to push for legislation that was "tough on crime". Nixon asserted that, "the deterioration [of respect for the rule of law] can be traced directly to the spread of the corrosive doctrine that every ... "('Gerber 2004). Rudolph Gerber argues that "racial implications" of these assertions justified the implementation of stricter law and order. The public was not oblivious to the subliminally racist rhetoric Nixon ...

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... , the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act reduced the classification of simple possession and non-profit distribution from felonies to misdemeanors (Himmelstein 104). This was a good start. However, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1973 and over the next 20 years, each succeeding president continued to escalate the drug war. This policy has obviously done nothing to stop the ... ...

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... saw it in the in the 1970s as big government regulated our economy into a recession of unemployment and inflation. In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as ... ...

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... saw it in the in the 1970s as big government regulated our economy into a recession of unemployment and inflation. In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as ... ...

• Word Count: 7038
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate