Narcotic Addict Treatment Act

United States Narcotic Addict Treatment Act establishes minimum standards for all methadone treatment facilities, as well as setting standard definitions for addicts. 

In 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was enacted into federal law. One purpose of the act was to clarify the ways in which medical personnel could legally dispense methadone to heroin addicts. In order to further clarify heroin treatment parameters, the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974 was passed, which set forth minimum standards for all... 

Form-363 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION Under the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974 APPROVED OMB N01117-0015 FORM OEA-363 (10-06) Previous editions are obsolete... 

United States Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Act authorizes the civil commitment of narcotic addicts, and gives federal financial assistance to states and local authorities to develop a local system of drug treatment programs. Methadone clinic treatment programs begin to dramatically rise. 

Since the passage of the Harrison Narcotic Act in 1914 by the U.S. Congress, the federal government has been involved in the control of narcotics and the treatment of addicts. In terms of treatment of narcotic addicts, the federal government opened facilities in Lexington, Kentucky, and Fort Worth, Texas, between 1936 and 1939 to help deal with the rising number of opiate addicts in the United States. 

This act established treatment for narcotic addiction as an alternative to incarceration. 

Public Health Service Act Amendment (Alcoholic and Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Amendments of 1968) (42 U.S.C. 2681, et seq.). This act provides for grants to a public and nonprofit private agency or organization for construction projects consisting of any facilities (including post-hospitalization treatment facilities for the prevention and treatment of alcoholism or treatment of narcotic addicts.)... 

By 1950, a number of follow-up studies of addicts following treatment seemed to establish that, consistently, 80 percent or more reverted to drug use within a few years (O Donnell 1965). In 1951, Congress passed the Boggs Act, which introduced the first mandatory minimum sentencing requirements for drug trafficking. These penalties were further stiffened by the 1956 Narcotic Control Act. In the classic era of... 

The opportunity the Harrison Act offered to those seeking to stamp out the spread of addiction was contained in one small phrase. A doctor or a dentist was permitted to continue to prescribe cocaine and other narcotics, provided that it was done in the course of his professional practice only. In other words, cocaine could be prescribed as part of a recommended course of medical treatment but not merely to help someone who was addicted to the drug avoid the symptoms of withdrawal or continue with their drug use. Doctors found to be writing prescriptions without some medical backup for the prescription could be and were arrested. 

This act established a record keeping requirement for the receipt and dispensing of opium or coca leaf products. A tax was assessed, also, for the dispensing of these products. Physicians were allowed to prescribe these products in the course of legitimate treatment to patients other than drug addicts. The possession of narcotics without a prescription became illegal. 

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