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

57SDr. Chambers. I think wliat you have is undoubtedly a correlation!or relationship. If I may, it is the same one we have had in behavioralscience in criminology for a long time. JNIost adult criminals werefirst juvenile delinquents. That is not to imply that most juvenile delinquentsbecome adult criminals. Most heroin addicts have marihuanahistories. That is not to imply that most marihuana smokers becomeheroin users or addicts.May I share with you the marihuana figures ?We did a stratified representati^-e sample of the population in NewYork, age 14 and above, which gave us a base population to study inexcess of 13 million people. We did face-to-face interviews on thisrepresentative sample in their homes and looked at all forms of druguse, whether it be aspirin or heroin and everything in between—lookedat attitudes, behaviors, what they thought about other users, peoplewho sold drugs, how you prevent drug use, whether you get all yourdrugs with prescriptions, et cetera. What we found in the area of marihuanawas that roughly 1,032,000 people in the State of New- Yorksmoked marihuana in the last 6 months. Of those, some 487,000 areregular users of marihuana, having smoked marihuana at least sixtimes during the past 30 days.Of those 487,000 regular smokers, some 175,000 are employed: theyare not students, they are not hippies, they are full-time emplo3^edpeople. Some 90,000 of those people are using it on the job.So we have in effect now established, I think, a data base for all ofthe forms of dnig use w-hich should allow us to look at some of thequestions that Mr. Ingersoll addressed with you.We are very proud, it must be apparent, in New York of the surveyand the results it gave us. '\^nien you begin to relate that some 110.000'people in the State of New York are regular users of prescriptionpep pills, some third of them get none of them by legal scrip, andsome 40 percent of the people who are regular users of pep pills areusing them on the job, then we are talking about an even greater problemthan we have alluded to earlier this morning.Mr. Keating. Do you have enough copies for all of us or is it permissiblethat we duplicate these ? I would love to have them.Dr. Chambers. I would be most pleased if you would duplicatethem.Chairman Pepper. We can Xerox them.Dr. Chambers, will you kindly submit your summary for the recordso we will have the full benefit of it ?Dr. Chambers. Yes, sir.(Dr. Chambers summary of the report follows. The report itself wasretained in the committee files. It was published by the Narcotic AddictionControl Commission and is entitled "An Assessment of DrugUse in the General Population^—^Special Eeport No. 1 : Drug Use inNew York State," May 1971.)[Exhibit No. 21(a)]State of New York,Narcotic Addiction Control Commission.New York, N.Y., June 22, 1071.Select Committee on Crime.House of Representatives, Congress of the United States,Washington, D.C.Dear Mr. Chairman : You win And enclosed a report prepared by NACC'sresearch director, Dr. Carl Cliiiml)L>rs, uliiili pertains to a study of the amounts