Drug Addiction and Crime

Charles Winick has served as director of the Musicians’ Clinic, a psychiatric clinic for addicted musicians, and, from 1955 to 1957, as a consultant on narcotics to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Addiction. From 1957 through 1959, he was research director of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Narcotics. He has been research director of the Narcotics Addiction Research Project in New York City, and is a founding director of the National Advisory Council on Narcotics. Author of eight books and more than 100 articles on various aspects of social pathology, Dr. Winick has taught at M.I.T., Columbia University, the University of Rochester, and other institutions.