Vietnam and Heroin - Stanton Peele
Channel: Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
Date: 2013-02-25

Dr. Peele discusses the crucial factor of environmental variables in overcoming addiction. He discusses Charles Winick's research which showed that physician narcotics addicts who had resources such as a job and home intact had much higher recovery rates than homeless and unemployed addicts. He goes on to discuss the fact that the vast majority of American servicemen who became addicted to heroin in Vietnam recovered on their own without treatment after returning to the United States because they no longer felt a need to use heroin to deal with the stresses of fighting in Vietnam.