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Operation Golden Flow attempts to address heroin dependence among U.S. servicemen.

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The U.S. military announces they will conduct urinalysis of all military service members returning from Vietnam. After the testing is announced, there is an immediate decrease in the number of service members who are actively using heroin during their travel back to the U.S.

This does not, of course, end the use of the drug altogether.