This study of a large New York City program found that three fifths of the patients who entered treatment had terminated before the end of the second year. (Author/AM)

Messengers earn while they learn the life style of work. (Editor)

Methadone has been defined as an agent to draw addicts out of the street life into "straight" society. However, the complementary perspective of the streets sees methadone as a new, widely available drug to be integrated into a subculture previously dominated by heroin. This article discusses the adaptation to methadone and its…

This is one of four volumes which constitute a history of a pioneer inner city youth project in a Puerto Rican slum in New York City: Mobilization For Youth, a multi-discipline social agency geared to demonstration, research and social action in eradicating poverty and its attendant ills. The volume discusses techniques and methods which account…

Drug rehabilitation programs in New York City encompass every form of treatment modality to be found in the field. As of September 1972, approximately 50,000 addicts were being treated. Estimates of the total number of addicts in New York City range from 150,000 to 300,000. There is little coordination among the various governmental and private…

This paper contains ethnographic participant-observation field notes taken on a one-night visit to a "shooting gallery" in East Harlem (New York City) along with background information and commentary. East Harlem, also referred to as "El Barrio" or Spanish Harlem, is a 200-square block neighborhood on the upper East Side of…

The document considers several unfortunate cycles: (1) belligerent students cause desperate teachers, who cause more belligerent students; (2) ineffective parents cause bewildered youth who never take advantage of existing opportunities and who create, in turn, more bewildered children; (3) browbeaten tenants cause callous landlords to neglect…

This document is a collection of the second session of hearings on drug abuse in the schools, conducted for the House of Representatives' Select Committee on Crime. This particular part delves into the drug problem in New York City. Witnesses from this city whose statements were heard in the 1972 hearings include school teachers, former drug…

The purpose of the study was to investigate three separate aspects of the process by which ex-addicts-in-treatment are prepared for, enter into, and function in the world of work. These aspects were the actual labor market conditions in two different urban settings--New York City and the greater Boston area; the specific institutional supports…

This is the last of five reports on programs for treatment and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D. C. For each of these cities, the following information was sought: (1) how much money Government agencies were spending on narcotic treatment and rehabilitation, (2) goals of…

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR A SAMPLE OF YOUNG JAIL INMATES ON RIKERS ISLAND IN NEW YORK CITY AND TO EVALUATE THEIR SUBSEQUENT PERFORMANCE AND ADJUSTMENT UPON RELEASE. OF 264 INMATES SELECTED UPON THE BASIS OF TESTING AND OTHER CRITERIA, 137 WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO AN EXPERIMENTAL AND 127 TO A CONTROL GROUP.…

Described briefly are the various antipoverty programs of New York City's Human Resources Administration. This new city agency coordinates programs in manpower and career development, community development, social services, youth services, addiction services, and the Office of Education Liaison. (NH)