'Drug Use in Vietname\r'

' medicate substance ab purpose by the soldiers in the Vietnam War was real common. Drug use in the military has forever and a day been around, but in the Vietnam era it digressed to increase at an alarming rate. It is remark that on that point were galore(postnominal) drugs use and abuse during this time. These drugs include marijuana, cocaine, and heroine. Soldiers very much used these drugs to turn thumbs down the pain of many hardships such as impairment during battle, loss of a fellow soldier or being away from home.\r\nMarijuana is leg every last(predicate)y considered a drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act; moreover the use of it was treated differently from other drugs by American soldiers and military lawyers in Vietnam. (Brush) Marijuana was impersonate in Vietnam long before the arrival of the Americans and the start of the war. Drug laws were poorly outlined and the enforcement of these poorly defined laws had little priority in the Vietna mese guilty justice system. The Vietnamese Government had no manoeuver over marijuana and there was no fundamental drug enforcement agency.\r\nAccording to a survey do in 1966 by the U. S. military command in the Saigon compass showed that there were 29 fixed outlets for the barter for of marijuana. The use and culture of marijuana in Vietnam has very much been considered part of the cultural regulations for use, sale, and protocol and there is no sense of illegal activity like there is in the U. S. Many American soldiers have noned that the Vietnamese people used marijuana freely and openly during the time. There are even stories of American soldiers smoking marijuana with the South Vietnamese civilians and soldiers (Brush).\r\nIn 1963, soldiers started development marijuana during the advisory period of the war. This was the earlier noted time of drug use in the Vietnam War and began before the widespread use in the United States. As its generality grew, Congressional p robes began. In 1967 an investigation by congress revealed 16 instances of marijuana use inside the Marine brig at Da Nang. The kickoff was the Vietnamese who gave it to prisoners on working parties. It was first often distributed by the soldiers throwing it into passing vehicles in which prisoners were riding (Brush).\r\nPrisoners were not the only when people eligible to get the sizable drug. While driving through urban areas marines build marijuana easily from vendors selling it on the streets. Marines took the offensive of marijuana more seriously than the army. While the marines were subjecting in all marijuana users to Courts-Marshall, the army only subjected users and dealers of hard drugs to trial. Although the marines took a more harsh approach to the use of marijuana, it was a failure. By 1969 use of marijuana was no eight-day just a trend of rear area units, and a drug rehabilitation was established in Cua Viet.\r\nThis quote from a senior officer shows the helple ssness against the rising trend of drug use among soldiers. â€Å"I dont know what the solution is…. I dont know what the stone we are going to do. ” (Brush) Marijuana was not the only drug problem during the Vietnam during the war. During 1970 and 1971, the media started to carry news of both new drug trends. The studies of the media showed a growing crook of white, middle-class young people, in suburbs as comfortably as inner cities, were utter to be using or dealing heroin.\r\nAnd United States military personnel-primarily in Vietnam, but also at duty displace in the United States and throughout the world-were similarly said to be sniffing, smoking, or mainlining heroin in existent numbers. (Brecher) The problem of drug use gained chairperson Richard Nixon’s attention, and in 1971 he said this to Congress, â€Å"Even now, there are no precise national statistics on drug use and drug addiction in the United States, the rate at which drug use is increas ing, or where and how this increase is taking place.\r\nMost of what we turn over we know is extrapolated from those few states and cities where the dimensions of the problem have force closer attention, including the maintenance of statistics. ” Also in 1971, anecdotal evidence revealed that heroin had become the must popular illicit drug among citizens and soldiers of the U. S. During the summer of 1971, the public was aware of the widespread heroin use and addiction among many of the United States armed forces in Vietnam. Public officials from the President of the United States announced that everything possible would be through to rehabilitate or cure addicted soldiers parcel in the war.\r\nThis shocking information about the drug addicted soldiers serving in the army started a massive rehabilitation plan. Richard Nixon released this plan to Congress in 1971 with this statement, â€Å"Rehabilitation: A New Priority…. I am asking the Congress for a summation of $105 million in addition to monetary resource already contained in my 1972 budget to be used solely for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug-addicted individuals…. The nature of drug addiction, and the peculiar aspects of the present problem as it involves veterans [of the Vietnam war], make it imperative that rehabilitation procedures be undertaken conterminously. . .\r\nIn order to expedite the rehabilitation program of Vietnam veterans, I have ordered the immediate establishment of … immediate rehabilitation efforts to be taken in Vietnam…. The department of Defense will provide rehabilitation programs to all servicemen being returned for bombardment who want this help, and we will be requesting legislation to permit the military services to hold back for treatment any individual due for discharge who is a narcotic addict. All of our servicemen must be accorded the right to rehabilitation. â€Å"\r\n'