Mentally retarded citizens have been denied their human and civil rights, not only by the public, but by professionals--including social workers. The author claims that most programs for the mentally retarded are, at best, dehumanizing. Professionals have an ethical obligation to refuse to refer children to such programs. (Author)

The nation has the capacity, capability, and resources to abolish poverty before the end of the next decade. (DM)

Reviews the use of heroin in the military forces. Reprinted with permission from Today's Health.'' (DS)

Discusses some social and cultural origins of health needs among Chinese-Americans and describes the role of community participation in health programing for the Chinatown of Boston, Massachusetts. (Author/JM)

President of the Washington, D.C. Teachers' Union presents the Union's recommendations for short range solutions to their extensive educational problems in testimony before the Senate Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety Committee on the District of Columbia. (DM)

There is a striking variation in quality of work rehabilitation in the United States from progressive sophisticated programs to those that incorporate the shadier practices of custodial care. Long range funding is imperative to the establishment of good programs. (Editor/SB)

Visits to the health office, described in this survey, were significantly greater among the oldest children, black students, children from families in which mothers had been recently hospitalized for illness, and among those lowest academic achievement. (Author)

This paper considers differential patterns of program utilization and the overall potential of the helping model for bringing needed services to otherwise unreached, maladapting school children. (Author)

The author suggests that the best way to improve a school's medical problem is a willingness on the part of both parent and school personnel to regularly assess these problems and offer solutions for their improvement. (BY)

At an ecologically oriented campus an ordinary fly swatter and a leaf vacuum cleaner were used to battle pollution. (IR)

This very brief article describes the Drug-O-Roma", an evening program which featured envolvement of students, parents and teachers. The program, presented once, was innovative and apparently successful. (CJ)

This paper reports the results of a recent study of the perceptions and attitudes about mental illness of 360 teachers in two rural North Carolina counties. A comparison of the results of this study with others conducted in the 1950's suggests that teachers are better able than the general public to identify symptoms of mental illness." (Author/SE)