Jerome Jaffe

Jerome Jaffe

Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe was the Drug Czar under the administration of President of the United States Richard Nixon. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/carfax/cadd/1999/00000094/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=c56wp7c89pgj.alexandra]

Career

Under the administration of President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Drug Action Prevention Office [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerome_Jaffe&action=edit&redlink=1] , an executive agency created by President Nixon] , a member of the Republican Party of the United States. During his career, he popularized the used of methadone treatments for heroin addicts [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/jaffe.html] , 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." [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/jaffe.html]

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. [http://www.dana.org/news/author.aspx?id=10254]

References

Epstein, Edward Jay. "The Krogh File - the Politics of 'Law and Order'." "Public Interest", no. 39 (1975): 99-124.


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