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Psychiatrist conducts urinalysis of everyone entering the Washington, D.C. jail system for a single month.

Date: 1969

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Forty-four percent of the people's urine analyzed tests positive for heroin. Methadone treatment begins to be pushed as a harm reduction response to addiction.