HR 843 · 93th Congress · Narcotic addicts
Drug Dependent Persons Rehabilitation Act
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary.(1973-01-03)
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Declares a Congressional policy that persons who are charged with or convicted of Federal crimes, and who are drug dependent but capable of rehabilitation should be civilly committed for treatment, rather than prosecuted. Title I: Civil Commitment of Persons Not Charged With Criminal Offense - Drug Dependent Persons Rehabilitation Act - Provides that whenever any drug dependent person desires to obtain treatment for his drug dependence such person may file a petition with the United States attorney for the district in which he resides or is found requesting that he be admitted to a hospital. Requires the United States attorney, if he determines that there is reasonable cause to believe that the person named in such petition is a drug dependent person and that appropriate State or other facilities are not available to such person, to request the United States district court to commit such person to a hospital of the Public Health Service or to any other facility established or approved by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for treatment as provided in this title. Directs the United States Attorney, in making his determination with respect to the nonavailability of such f…
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