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

—466saying how many or what proportion of the people in federallyassisted programs are under 18. That would give us the sharp questionto which we then could tr}^ to provide hopefully, a responsive answer.Mr. Perito. If you could provide that, it would be very helpful.Dr. Brown. Be glad to.(The information to be provided follows:)Nineteen percent of individuals being treated under NIMH programs (includ-(We do not have theing NARA and the community programs) are under age 21.exact percentage of such individuals under age 18.)Under NARA (the Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Act of 1966, Titles I andIII), 13 percent of all individuals currently being treated are under age 21.Of those individuals being treated in community-based programs, 21 percentare under age 21. A further breakdown of individuals treated in the communityprograms indicates that 19 percent of these individuals fall within ages 16-20 and2 percent are 15 or younger.Mr. Perito. Do you have any criteria or are there criteria set up forthe treatment of young addicts? Do you know of any?Dr. Brown. Not per se. I know that is part of the primitive artof treatm^ent which we are talking about. This gets to be, shall wesay, undeveloped, primitive when you get to the young, which isreally a quite op])ressing and difficult problem.Mr. Perito. One of the problem^s that we have been having intrying to gather together information is statistics on evaluation. Doyou know of any statistics or any evaluative study as to the efiicacyof the drug-free approach programs insofar as crime reduction isconcerned?Dr. Brown. Again, we presented in our testimony our experienceunder the NARA program, including crime statistics. We will in thevery near future, within the next few months, be able to take thedrug-free versus the methadone, to do the important thing of matchingfor age, sex, employment, social background, to give definitive answerson that comparative basis as well as the crime, social, educational,and physiological paramicters. We are pursuing that as rapidly aswe can.Mr. Perito. That would be very, very helpful.Chairman Pepper. Excuse me just a minute. We would be verymuch interested in that. Can you give any overall judgmients as towhether or not adequate treatment and rehabilitation facilities madeavailable in the communities of the country would effectively, andif so, to what degree, reduce crime? Could you hazard any estimate?Dr. Brown. Well, what we could do is in laying out what our bestprogram would be for the total heroin addict j)opalation, 250,000,with what we now know about its effectiveness, what impact thatwould have on the crime rate. We could do the logical steps to giveyou an answer to that question.Cliairman Pepper. That is what I am getthig at. If we api)Hedthe skill and knowledge and substances that we now have availablein an adequate degree, what impact would that have, in j^our bestjudgment?Dr. Brown. We could follow out that thouglit process.Mr. Brasco. Dr. Brown, not to comijlicate this blueprint anyfurther—Dr. Brown. It is a rainbow print by now.