Word: addict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ostensibly funding a New Jersey-based heroin addict rehabilitation program, "four to six" individuals in their early twenties approached an unknown number of freshmen with offers of cut-rate periodical subscriptions, Kenney said...
...another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time for the acid test. In no way was I going to subject readers to third-hand medicinal accounts or wailing dramaturgy from a pet addict from the local half-way therapeutic community...
...indeed a drug panic, but it bears a close resemblance to "Bung" Karno's war against Borneo; the pent-up aggression of a frustrated people in search of an enemy more tangible than their own frustrations. Now, when I am asked about the advisability of having a "real drug addict" talk about his tribulations, I add that, to be fair, they really ought to have a child molester along to give a paean on the desirability of five-year-old girls. The grand majority of the physicians are literally too frightened to try heroin, and the total majority...
...administer the necessary dose at home, he can sell it illegally; and if you force the addict to come to the clinic this often, you isolate him from society...
William Rusher, publisher of the National Review and Dershowitz's opponent in the debate, argued that a heroin maintenance program is impractical because an addict needs between four and six fixes...