Word: addict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hatful of Rain (by Michael V. Gazzo) concerns a drug addict. Young Johnny Pope picked up the habit while a hospitalized war veteran, shook it off, and now-with his wife expecting a child -is on the needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges...
...fairly good scholar, pleasant, modest, quiet, well-mannered, but he won no prizes. At Yale he was again just average as a student. It was at Yale that Averell Harriman's record first showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this exercise in memory training, has said...
Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
...pusher" (retail peddler) of narcotics is under irresistible pressure to win fresh converts to addiction. Each addict, in turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...
Five witnesses told the subcommittee that the remedy was to let addicts temporarily get their dope free, or at cost, from public clinics, thus eliminating the narcotics black market. For the New York Academy of Medicine, a physicians' public-service group, Dr. Hubert S. Howe presented a bold program patterned on that used in Britain (which claims to have no more than 400 known addicts and no appreciable black market). Hospitals, said Dr. Howe, should examine, classify and treat addicts, then refer them to specially licensed doctors who would continue treatment. The most drastic break with current U.S. practice...