John Adriance of Spencerport, and his son Patrick Adriance, illustrator, recently published the book Nixon, Congress, and the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972.
The book covers each segment of the enactment of the law, from its introduction into Congress to its eventual passage. Successive chapters illustrate and document the initiative taken by President Nixon, the Senate’s response, the reaction of the House, and the House-Senate Conference that was held to reconcile the different versions of the bill. The book concludes with an epilogue that summarizes the making of the law and then proceeds to look at the first six years of the law under the Nixon and Ford Administrations.
Nixon, Congress, and the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 provides the reader with a better sense of appreciation of the legislative process. It documents the historic establishment of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention in Nixon’s executive office and Congressional reaction to Nixon’s executive order. Congress disagreed with Nixon’s initiative and sought to control drug abuse prevention by establishing an institute in the existing bureaucracy. The National Institute on Drug Abuse would be charged with managing drug abuse prevention for the future.
John Adriance is a retired social studies teacher who resides in Spencerport. Patrick Adriance, a 1994 Spencerport High School graduate, is a special education teacher and artist who lives in Lowville, New York. This is the second book that they have published. Their books can be ordered from Lift Bridge Book Shop.
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