Nixon Administration Case Study

The discussion topic will be regarding policies during the Nixon Administration surrounding the education and rehabilitation policies on drug addiction especially during this era when the war in Vietnam was taking place and heroin addiction was on the rise. It will be the researcher argument that education and rehabilitation generates a more positive outcome when it comes to addressing the needs of the addicted persons within the community than the use of increased punishment with heavier prison sentences along with the building of more prisons. According to Dufton (2012) during the time of the Nixon Administration, President Nixon had seen the United States increase with the number of its citizens using drugs, specifically and with this increase

During this time there was an increase of people addicted to heroin and Nixon and his administration were in fear that the number of addicted people would be wide spread to the point of elevated problems so something needed to be done to curb the possibility of an increased rate of drug related crimes. The methadone treatment facilities were given the go ahead to experiment with the heroin users/addicts for methadone treatment in order to gage if the rate of crime was going to slow down abundantly. Nixon was pleased to find out that crime had decreased within the city of Washington, DC, however outside in other cities in the U.S.A. crime was on the climb, so at this time Nixon had approved for these treatment facilities to be administered throughout the country in the hope that the result would be a crime reduction in the country due to people addicted to heroin going into these methadone facilities for

Increased laws resulted in the arrest and convictions of the street addict and small time corner hustlers. It was not the scope for the War on Drugs Policy to rid America of Heroin but it was the intent to stop New York from being the main center piece of the heroin trade because New York was looked upon as America. It was the welcoming format for the Cocaine Scene that rocked the United States that were being shipped over with increasing frequency. The Nixon Administration did succeed for a short time with the War on Drug`s Policy and this success was based on the fact that the Administration viewed the situation of demand and supply as one issue and not as a separate issue. If this War on Drug`s Policy had taken a wider outlook and was based on an international level of land reform that allowed the farmers to harvest Food products for capital gain instead of producing poppy to produce heroin, the world at large, although this concept may have taken some time to develop, would have been allowed the opportunity for harmony and economic