Word: addict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the company's profits for that year. Retailers in Manhattan are worried that many of its elegant stores will be forced to close in a few years if losses to thieves are not cut. "About 60% to 70% of all those whom we apprehend have a drug-addiction problem," said Bonwit President William M. Fine. "Whenever you see an area with a major drug problem, you see a great increase in store thefts." The problem afflicts almost every major metropolitan area in the country. According to executives of the Chicago drug abuse program, a heroin addict without other...
Trash. Paul Morrissey wrote and filmed this surprisingly short, well-edited and well-shot depression comedy for the Andy Warhol factory. Joe Dallesandro plays a heroin addict whose habit interferes with his sex life and Holly Woodlawn is his transvestite girl-next-door. For all its graphic sex and language, Trash maintains a point of view that is decidedly old-fashioned, morally speaking. As a result, this movie is a most original and affecting examination of the rapprochement of the Old America...
...Habit. For all its dramatic effects, methadone therapy still stirs strong argument within the medical profession. The debate began in 1964 when Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander first started using the drug to wean addicts away from heroin. Methadone programs, which cost an average of $1,500 a year for each addict-as opposed to $5,000 to $10,000 for a year in prison -are operating in most major U.S. cities. About 10,000 of the country's estimated 200,000 heroin victims now participate in some form of methadone treatment; thousands more are waiting to enroll...
There is no question that methadone, particularly when combined with psychological counseling, offers the well-motivated addict a relatively easy way to give up heroin. Developed as a morphine substitute in Germany during World War II, methadone relieves pain and eases the symptoms of heroin withdrawal without producing euphoria or the craving for ever-increasing dosages. But methadone has one quality in common with the heroin it replaces: it is just as addictive. Most of those who use it must continue their new, though less destructive habit indefinitely. While less painful than heroin withdrawal, kicking methadone can take longer...
...Barry Ramer, whose Center for Special Problems has just won a $121,000 grant from the city of San Francisco, equates methadone with insulin, which some diabetics take daily without suffering social opprobrium. Herman Lancaster of the state-sponsored Illinois Drug Abuse Program stresses that methadone enables the addict "to do what he could never do before." Dr. Robert DuPont, head of the Washington, D.C., Narcotics Treatment Administration, calls total and unassisted abstinence, which is recommended by many methadone critics, a "phony alternative" for heavy users of heroin...