The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs

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index Abrams, Creighton (“Fighting Abe”), 126, 129, 132 acetic anhydride, 138 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union Afghanistan, 167, 191–92. See also corruption; opium African Americans: community leaders, 94, 151; imprisonment rate, 11; media portrayal of, 31–32, 104; and military drug abuse, 31, 52, 72; and racism in the military, 20, 31. See also Black Panther Party; Black Power; black soldiers; Murphy-Steele report Air America, 78; as drug transport, 77–78, 82, 85–88, 138, 143. See also drug traffic Air America (film), 160–61, 214n34 Air Force (U.S.). See under military alcohol, 34, 63, 66, 165, 184; and drug use, 16, 19–20, 28–29, 70, 168 alcohol abuse, 26, 29, 35, 54; “juicers,” 158–59. See also under military: U.S. Army alcoholism, 26–27, 35 Alex, Gary, 139 Allman, T. D., 160 Alpert, Richard (pseud. Baba Ram Dass), 65 Alpha First Battalion Cavalry Division, 21 Alsop, Stewart, 7, 42–43, 45, 55, 98, 114, 207n28 Ambrose, Myles J., 112–13 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 175 American Gangster (Scott, film), 152, 204n78 amnesty programs, 128, 142 amphetamines, 16–17, 34, 192 Anderson, Jack, 41–42, 52, 55, 113, 163, 167 Andes Mountains, 12, 167, 177–79, 191. See also Central America; crops An Khe, 27, 93 Anslinger, Harry J., 13, 38, 43, 69, 87, 101–2, 114 anticrime, 48–50 antidrug act. See Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act antidrug amnesty, 142 antidrug conservative agenda, 76, 100, 159, 186–87 antidrug legislation, 40, 49, 95, 100, 121, 200. See also under drug control; drug traffic antidrug programs, 3, 111 antidrug propaganda campaigns, 7, 133 antiestablishment, 15, 32, 95, 152 antipsychiatry. See psychiatry antiwar movement, 1–2, 6–11, 20, 31, 68, 150, 152, 159, 192; activists, 9, 76–79, 81–82, 99–100, 152, 225n7; anti-imperialists (-ism), 89, 151, 164; The Bond, 93; protests, 5, 31, 40, 43, 104, 106, 157, 236n34; and U.S. political parties, 14, 9, 75, 88, 92, 181; Apocalypse Now (Coppola, film), 148, 155, 157 Argentina, 118. See also Latin America Army (U.S.). See under military Army Medical Research Team (U.S.). See under military Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN), 28, 109, 131; alcohol use in, 28; and Cambodian invasion, 43; drug traffic in, 85, 87. See also drug traffic 288 index ARVN. See Army of the Republic of South Vietnam assassination, 138; character, 52; and police training programs, 118, 213n23; squads 115; of U.S. officers, 30 atrocities, 5, 37, 140, 189–90; and drug abuse, 40, 47, 60, 73, 161, 164; and Montagnards, 33, 155–57, 163; and psychopathology, 152, 235n16. See also My Lai Ausubel, David, 57 Baba Ram Dass. See Alpert, Richard Bailey, Norman A., 181 Baird, Robert, 59 Baltazar, Gonzalo, 27 Ban Houei Sai, 138–39 Bao Dai (emperor). See Dai, Bao Bartimo, Frank, 21, 49 Beat poets, 104 Becker, Howard S., 51, 65–69. See also social context Belleux, Roger, 96 Bennett, William, 166, 185, 238n2 Berhardt, Michael, 33. See also My Lai Berman, Larry, 8 Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal, 27 Bien Hoa airbase, 27 The Big Chill (Kasdan, film), 158 Big Green Machine, 11. See also antidrug propaganda campaigns Binh Xuyen. See Xuyen, Binh Binoctal, 3 biochemical warfare, 59, 79, 167 Black Luigi. See Conein, Lucien black market, 19, 92, 135; economy, 34, 54, 127, 133, 142–43, 192, 229n52, 233n96 Black Panther Party (BPP), 94, 112. See also African Americans; black soldiers Black Power, 10, 30–31, 93, 95. See also antiwar movement black soldiers, 94–95; and alcohol abuse, 158–59, 163; intercity communities, 98–99, 173; portrayal of, in the media and film, 31–32, 44, 62, 148, 151–53. See also African Americans; Black Panther Party; Black Power Black Sunday (Frankenheimer, film), 151 Bloomquist, Edward R., 58 Blum, Richard H., 65 BNDD. See Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Boggs Act. See drug traffic: legislative acts Bolivia, 118, 177; cocaleros, 179–80, 183; U.S. involvement in, 178–79, 182. See also cartels; Latin America Bo Mya (general), 144, 234nn103–4 Born on the Fourth of July (Stone, film), 159 Bourne, Peter, 23, 26, 68, 130, 238n7; and alcohol v. drug use, 28; treatment facility, 111, 168–69. See also under military: U.S. Army Medical Research Team The Boys in Company C (Furie, film), 153 BPP. See Black Panther Party Brazil, 66, 116. See also Latin America Browning, Frank, 75, 78, 92 Browning, Hannah, 126 brutality, 127; in Bolivia, 145; in...