Debate over Treatment of Narcotics Addicts
June 13, 1962 - A narcotics expert suggested today that all “hard-core” heroin users be confined to prisons or work camps because no effective control had been found for such an addiction. Dr. Lewis Thomas, chairman of the department of medicine at the NYU Medical School, told the annual meeting of the Health Research Council that temporary hospitalization had proved an “absolute, utter failure.” Suggesting that all heroin users “could be confined to work camps or other place