SEPTEMBER 29, 1966.-Ordered to be printed
Reported under authority of the order of the Senate of September 29, 1966
Mr. MCCLELLAN, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill (S. 2191) to provide for the civil commitment of certain persons addicted to the use of narcotic drugs, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
TITLE I-DECLARATION OF POLICY
SEC. 101. It is the policy of the Congress that certain persons charged with or convicted of violating Federal criminal laws, who are determined to be addicted to narcotic drugs, should, in lieu of prosecution or sentencing, be civilly committed to the custody of the Surgeon General for confinement and treatment in a hospital or other facility of the Public Health Service designed to effect their cure, restoration to health, and return to society as useful members. It is the further policy of the Congress that narcotic addicts thus committed for hospitalization treatment should be required in addition to submit to whatever post hospitalization care or supervision is determined by the Surgeon General to be necessary to effect their complete rehabilitation and prevent their readdiction to narcotic drugs.
It is the further policy of the Congress that certain persons addicted to narcotic drugs who are not charged with the commission of any offense should be afforded the opportunity, through civil commitment, for treatment and cure, including posthospitalization care, in order that they may be rehabilitated and returned to society as useful members and in order that society may be protected more effectively from crime and delinquency which result from narcotic addiction.