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

628perhaps greater than some of the other States. But they do not havesufficient funds to come to grips with it. I think you can project outfrom what they are doing, or project our estimates of $20 million thisyear, $45 million next year, to work on this problem. I think if yougive us a program of that sort on a financial basis that is programedfor the future, then we can gear to this and have much more effectivepi'Ograms than we will have on any other basis.Chairman Pepper. Governor, your statemeiit is obviously a veryreasonable and articulate one. In my own opinion, we should appropriateat least $500 million to be available. The President holds upother money that the Congress appropriates when he does not thinkit appropriate to spend it. He does not give it to anybody who couldnot use it wisely. But we ought to make at least $500 million availablein fiscal 1972 and ask the States to give us, within 60 days or 45 days,a good program that you think you could use this money on effectively,and then we would begin to get somewhere and we would notice adecrease in the problem.Governors, we want to thank vou verv much for vour kindness incoming. You have been most helpful to us.The committee will recess until 2 o'clock, when we will hear Dr.John Kramer.(Whereupon, at 1 :05 p.m., the committee was recessed until 2 p.m.of the same day.)(The following letters were subsequently received from the officialsof various cities in response to a request by the committee for theirviews:)[Exhibit No. 26(a)]City of Bostotn",Office of the Mayor.City Hall, Boston, June 9, 1911.Hon. Claude Pepper,Chairman, House Select Committee on Crime,U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, B.C.Dear Congressman : I wisla to thank you and the members of your committeefor requesting my views on tlie needs of the Nation's major cities in dealing withthe problem of drug addiction.Drug aliuse and drug addiction have become problems of great concern in thecity of Boston. At the present time there are an estimated 10.000 users of heroinamong Boston's 6-50,000 residents. Although there are no generally acceptedestimates of the number of people who abuse other narcotics and dangerousdrugs, the testimony of educators, community leaders, and youth workers suggeststhat illicit drug use—particularly by high school and junior high schoolage young people—is widespread and constantly increasing. Not only is oneBostonian out of every 65 a heroin addict, but the number of addicts has risenat an epidemic rate—a rate possibly as high as 50 percent each year.To meet this epidemic, in March 1970. Boston established a comprehensivedrug abuse control program. Since that time, we have opened two out-patientmethadone clinics, established an in-patient day-care and detoxification center,initiated a 24-hour hotline in the accident floor of the city's general hospitalto respond to drug-related crises, and provided funding and other assistance tosevei-al community-based self-help rehabilitation programs. We have tripled thesize of the police department's drug control unit, and with the generous assistanceof the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, provided allofllcers with specialized training. Over 1,2.50 public and parochial school teachersin Boston have participated in drug abuse education symposia and trainingprogx-ams. In many neighborhoods, community drug action committees haveharnessed the energy of private citizens in local fund-raising and volunteeractivity in support of community-based treatment and preventive education.