Health Services Amendments: Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ... July 12, 1968, 11-12. sējumiU.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 88 lappuses Considers. S. 3094, to amend the Public Health Act to extend regional medical programs for the fight against heart disease, cancer, stroke, and related diseases. S. 2989, to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to provide for the construction of special facilities for the treatment of alcoholics and narcotic addicts coordinated with facilities providing comprehensive community mental health services. S. 1508, to provide for a comprehensive program for the treatment and control of alcoholism. |
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89th Congress administration AESS agencies alcoholism and narcotic alcoholism programs amended American American Dental Association American Hospital Association appropriate areas arrests authorized Belding Scribner bill cancer CHAIRMAN community mental health CONGRESS THE LIBRARY coordinated court Crime Commission criminal detoxification detoxification centers DIMAS drug addiction evaluation facilities Federal fiscal funds gram GRIEFER Health Centers Act health problem heart disease homeless alcoholics hospitals institutions involved June 30 legislation LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LISTER HILL major ment Mental Health Centers Mental Health Program million National offender operation oral cancer organizations patients personnel police prevention and treatment problem of alcoholism programs for alcoholics projects proposed Public Health Service recommended Regional Medical Program RESS SCRIBNER Secretary Senator Hill skid row staffing statement subcommittee Thank tion treatment of alcoholism treatment programs U.S. SENATE uremia Welfare
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41. lappuse - Mr. Chairman, and members of the subcommittee, I am happy to appear before you today to testify in support of HR 6930, the Powerplant Fuel Conversion Act of 1980.
38. lappuse - be amended to require specific kinds of offensive conduct in addition to drunkenness." Perhaps the strongest barrier to making such a change is that there presently are no clear alternatives for taking into custody and treating those who are now arrested as drunks. The Commission believes that current efforts to find such alternatives to treatment within the criminal system should be expanded. For example, if adequate public health facilities for detoxification are developed, civil legislation could...
36. lappuse - Drunkenness arrest practices vary from place to place. Some police departments strictly enforce drunkenness statutes, while other departments are known to be more tolerant. In fact, the number of arrests in a city may be related less to the amount of public drunkenness than to police policy.
36. lappuse - The arrest of the drunkenness offender The police do not arrest everyone who is under the influence of alcohol. Sometimes they will help an inebriate home. It is when he appears to have no home or family ties that he is most likely to be arrested and taken to the local jail.
36. lappuse - The two million arrests for drunkenness each year involve both sporadic and regular drinkers. Among the number are a wide variety of offenders — the rowdy college boy; the weekend inebriate; the homeless, often unemployed single man. How many offenders fall into these and other categories is not known. Neither is it known how many of the offenders are alcoholics in the medical sense of being dependent on alcohol. There is strong evidence, however, that a large number of those who are arrested have...
38. lappuse - ... offender. What the system usually does accomplish is to remove the drunk from public view, detoxify him, and provide him with food, shelter, emergency medical service, and a brief period of forced sobriety. As presently constituted, the system is not in a position to meet his underlying medical and social problems. Effect on the System of Criminal Justice. Including drunkenness within the system of criminal justice seriously burdens and distorts its operations. Because the police often do not...
65. lappuse - Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands according to their respective needs for assistance under this part.
38. lappuse - Cross-examination could be conducted on "observations" of a police officer such as "bloodshot" and "glassy" eyes, "staggering gait," "odor" of alcohol on defendant's breath. The testimony of an expert medical witness on behalf of the defendant could be elicited. The extent of police time allotted to handling drunkenness offenders varies from city to city and from precinct to precinct. In most cities a great deal of time is spent. The inebriate must be taken into custody, transported to jail, booked,...
36. lappuse - OPERATION OF THE CRIMINAL SYSTEM AFTER ARREST Following arrest, the drunk is usually placed in a barren cell called a "tank," where he is detained for at least a few hours. The tanks in some cities can hold as many as 200 people, while others hold only 1 or 2. One report described the conditions found in a tank in this way: Although he may have been picked up for his own protection, the offender is placed in a cell, which may frequently hold as many as 40-50 men where there is no room to sit or lie...
35. lappuse - ... load on the operations of the criminal justice system. It burdens police, clogs lower criminal courts and crowds penal institutions throughout the United States. Because of the sheer size of the problem and because of doubts that have recently been raised about the efficacy of handling drunkenness within the system of criminal justice, the Commission sought to reexamine present methods of treating drunkenness offenders and to explore promising alternatives. It was not in a position to undertake...