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Advocates; Should Your City Provide Methadone to Heroin Addicts?
Part of The Advocates. Part of The Advocates: An Important & Relevant Innovation in Public Affairs Television.
05/09/1970
Moderator: Victor Palmieri Advocate: R. Lisle Baker Advocate: William Bailey Guest: Kevin White, Mayor of Boston Witnesses: Dr. Jerome Jaffe Prof. Of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Pleasant Harris Methadone Program, Bronx State Hospital Karl J. Deissler, MD Natl. Medical Director, Synanon Foundation Gene Haislip Narcotic Bureau, Washington DC
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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should Your City Provide Methadone to Heroin Addicts?
- Program Number
33
- Series Description
A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969
- Program Description
Moderator: Victor Palmieri Advocate: R. Lisle Baker Advocate: William Bailey Guest: Kevin White, Mayor of Boston Witnesses: Dr. Jerome Jaffe – Prof. Of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Pleasant Harris – Methadone Program, Bronx State Hospital Karl J. Deissler, MD – Nat’l. Medical Director, Synanon Foundation Gene Haislip – Narcotic Bureau, Washington DC Produced at WGBH, bears WGBH Copyright
- Duration
01:00:25
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Harris, Pleasant
- Palmieri, Victor
- Haislip, Gene
- Jaffe, Jerome
- White, Kevin H.
- Baker, R. Lisle
- Deissler, Karl J.
- Bailey, William
- Locations
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Social Issues
- Contributors
- White, Kevin (Guest)
- Jaffe, Jerome (Guest)
- Bailey, William (Guest)
- Haislip, Gene (Guest)
- Palmieri, Victor (Moderator)
- Harris, Pleasant (Guest)
- Deissler, Karl (Guest)
- Baker, R. Lisle (Guest)
- Publication Information
- Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should Your City Provide Methadone to Heroin Addicts?,” 05/09/1970, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6626C08AA1AC4F2E90E1606E24607D6A.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should Your City Provide Methadone to Heroin Addicts?.” 05/09/1970. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6626C08AA1AC4F2E90E1606E24607D6A>.
- APA: Advocates; Should Your City Provide Methadone to Heroin Addicts?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6626C08AA1AC4F2E90E1606E24607D6A