WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DRUG ABUSE - Herbert W Armstrong - May 1982

Herbert W Armstrong

The Director of the United States National Institute on Drug Abuse speaks out! Psychiatrist William Pollin, director of the NIDA since 1979, was interviewed by Plain Truth writers Donald D. Schroeder and Michael A. Snyder in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pollin, if you had only this one opportunity to speak to our readers, how would you describe the drug abuse situation today? We've gone through a period of approximately 20 years during which there was dramatic increase in the use of drugs in this country. In most health and social problem fields, if you get a 20 to 50 percent increase- that's dramatic. If you get a 100 percent increase, that's epidemic. In the area of drug abuse, we had a 3,000 percent increase. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library