In the first four months of 1971, over 1,000 men from the Marines alone were discharged for drug-related offenses and returned to their communities, each posing a threat to society. In 1965, there was an uncertain but official estimate of 68,000 heroin addicts in America. In 1971, according to numerous federal agencies, although there were still no hard figures, heroin addicts were estimated at 315,000. Based on an ABC television documentary, this book is an eyewitness account of how the problem of drug abuse in South-east Asia grew from marijuana to heroin, how it is now spreading to infect our cities at home, what military and civilian authorities are doing to cope with it, and how it threatens to affect our future tranquility.
