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1 Contemp. Drug Probs. 263 (1971-1972)
Rehabilitation of Heroin Users in Vietnam

handle is hein.journals/condp1 and id is 283 raw text is: Rehabilitation of heroin users in Vietnam BY NORMAN E. ZINBERG, M.D. Dr. Zinberg is Professor of Education at Clark University, and is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is co-author (with John Robertson) of the Jbrthcoming book, Drugs and the Public. At the request of the Department of Defense and the Drug Abuse Council, I traveled during August and September 1971 in Southeast Asia to study the problem of heroin use among U.S. soldiers and to advise on the drug rehabilitation and treatment programs already in operation there. I visited 10 of the total of 16 programs and conducted hundreds of interviews with individuals and groups: enlisted men, noncommissioned officers, junior officers, and senior officers. I was allowed to go completely on my own through barracks and clubs and in the field. A few of the interviews were formal, but in most of them the conversation was unrestricted and relaxed. I dressed in casual, nonmilitary clothes in order to present as easy an appearance as possible, and I told the men I in- terviewed that my purpose was to learn more about the social setting in which drug use took place. My observations proved to be contrary to what I expected and to what we know about heroin use in the United States. In Vietnam heroin use is not the habit of a deviant loner from an extremely deprived urban background, but is a social activity occurring mostly in small groups of friends. In this setting there is little of the basic social taboo against heroin use that predominates in most social

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