Jerome Jaffe

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jerry Jaffe |image = Nixon and Jaffe (1972) (cropped).jpg |caption = Jaffe and Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972 |office = Director of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention |president = Richard Nixon |term_start = June 17, 1971 |term_end = June 17, 1973 |predecessor = Position established |successor = Robert DuPont |birth_name = Jerome Herbert Jaffe |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|7|6}} |birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |spouse = {{marriage|Faith Kessel|1958}} |children = 3 |education = Temple University (BA, MA, MD) }} '''Jerome H. Jaffe''' (born July 6, 1933) is a clinical professor and was the drug Czar under the administration of President of the United States Richard Nixon.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Conversation with Jerome H. Jaffe|date=January 1, 1999|journal=Addiction|volume=94|issue=1|pages=13–30|doi=10.1080/09652149934143|pmid=10665082|last1=Jaffe|first1=J. H.|doi-access=free}}</ref>

== Career == Many American soldiers used heroin during the Vietnam War. According to Representative Robert Steele in a report for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, there was little use in the Army until late 1969. But by 1971, 10 to 15 percent of the troops in Vietnam were using heroin from the Golden Triangle. It was about this time that based on the efforts of Jaffe, methadone clinics were established in the U.S., partly to treat addicted veterans.<ref name="Swartz2012">{{cite book|author=James Swartz|title=Substance Abuse in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TR7YUGYZXPAC|year=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-35376-5}}</ref>{{rp|176–180}}

Under the administration of President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), an executive agency created by President Nixon, a member of the Republican Party of the United States. During his career, he popularized the use of methadone treatments for heroin addicts,<ref name="pbs.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/jaffe.html|title=Interviews - Dr. Jerome Jaffe - Drug Wars - FRONTLINE - PBS|website=www.pbs.org}}</ref> stating that "There was evidence that methadone treatment was effective. There were some good controlled studies." He also initiated "methadone programs, detoxification programs, and therapeutic communities."<ref name="pbs.org"/> Jaffe was an opponent of ibogaine trials to treat drug dependency, concentrating instead on replacement therapies with alternative opiates like methadone and buprenorphine.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}}

Currently, Jaffe is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he works in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dana.org/news/author.aspx?id=10254|title=Author: Jerome H. Jaffe|website=www.dana.org|access-date=August 13, 2008|archive-date=June 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613084323/http://dana.org/news/author.aspx?id=10254|url-status=dead}}</ref> He lives in Maryland and has three grandchildren.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}}

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==External links== * [http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080527_197503905thekroghfilethepoliticsoflawandorderwdwardjayepstein.pdf Epstein, Edward Jay. "The Krogh File - the Politics of 'Law and Order'." ''National Affairs'', no. 39 (1975): 99-124.]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * Finding aid to the [https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms021007 Jerome Jaffe papers] at the [https://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress]

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