Narcotics research, rehabilitation, and treatment. Hearings, Ninety ...

271Chairman Pepper. The committee will come to order, please.Mr. Keatinsr, ttouIcI you like to examine ?]Mr. IvEATixG. ^Ir. Horan, I was not here for your entire testimony.However, the portions that I heard in the question and answer portionof vour statement I found to be excellent.I think ]Mr. Ranp:el had indicated, and I agfree, that the goal we wantto achieve is rehabilitation and not total maintenance for the lifetimeof the addict. So I don't have any specific question, but I wantedto make those comments.Chairman Pepper. Thank you.]Mr. Horan, your testimony about the drug problem in FairfaxCounty is of particular interest to those of us who are on this committeenow who were members of the committee in the last Congress,because either in the latter part of 1969 or the early part of 1970 weheld a hearing in Fairfax Countv, vou recall, in the courthouse?]Mr. HoRAxrYes, sir : the fall of 1969.Chairman Pepper. What interested us was that here was a very finecounty, composed of very fine citizens, high level of income, primarilyresidential in character, that had a heroin problem.I recall very well that we had some students from one of your highschools who testified at our hearing and told about the prevalence ofdrugs in the schools, the high schools.So, you, as the Commonwealth's attorney of Fairfax, are telling usthat in 1969 the drug problem in Fairfax County became serious andcontinues to be, I imagine, a very serious problem.Mr. HoRAx. Yes, sir ; is it.Chairman Pepper. Do you find that drugs, either in one way or another,are related to the crime problem in your county ?Mr. Horan. Mr. Chairman, we have seen in the last 2 years, anyway,a veiy high percentage of drug-related crime. They aren't actuallycoming into the court as a drug case, a drug prosecution, but in thearea of burglary or robbery. We had two murders last year where thedefense to the murder was that it was committed under the influenceof LSD. So we have seen a very high percentage of drug- related crime.Chairman Pepper. So you are concerned about the drug problem inrelationship to crime primarily as the Commonwealth's attorney.You have observed, as a prosecuting attorney, certain reactions tothe use of methadone which have also concerned you and which youhave been very ably telling us about here today. You are speaking, ofcourse, out of your experience as a prosecuting attorney, not as a medicaldoctor, I assume ?Mr. HoRAN. That is right.Chairman Pepper. I suppose we all agree that somehow or anotherwe must find a way of dealing adequately with the drug problem, particularlyheroin problem, and we don't want to create another problemin tryinsf to get rid of the first,Mr. HoRAX. Exactly.Chairman Pepper. You have raised a very serious question as towhether or not a private physician, unskilled in respect to this substanceof methadone and others of similar character, should have autliorityto distribute it. dispense it. There is always a possibility ofabuse. We are very much concerned about that very thinp-. We had "wit-