Jerome Jaffe

Jerome H. Jaffe was the Drug Czar under the administration of President of the United States Richard Nixon.^[1]

Career

Under the administration of President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), an executive agency created by President Nixon, a member of the Republican Party of the United States. During his career, he popularized the use of methadone treatments for heroin addicts,^[2] stating that "There was evidence that methadone treatment was effective. There were some good controlled studies." He also initiated "methadone programs, detoxification programs, and therapeutic communities."^[3] Jaffe was a powerful opponent of Ibogaine trials to treat drug dependancy, concentrating instead on lifelong replacement therapies with alternative (yet still addictive) opiates like methadone and buprenorphine.

Currently, Jaffe is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he works in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. ^[4] He lives in Maryland and has three grandchildren.

References

External links

• Epstein, Edward Jay. "The Krogh File - the Politics of 'Law and Order'." National Affairs, no. 39 (1975): 99-124.