Word: addict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City, the sleazy dealers peddling dope in Manhattan's Washington Heights call it "crack." In the south central part of Los Angeles, the desperate addicts chasing an ever more elusive high know it as "rock." On both coasts, and in Chicago, Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S., the drug by either name is an inexpensive yet highly potent, highly addictive form of cocaine that is rapidly becoming a scourge. Pushers sell pellet-size "rocks" in tiny plastic vials for as little as $10. Smoked rather than snorted, a single hit of crack provides an intense, wrenching rush...
...streets to raise more cash." But robbery is not the only price society pays for crack; the state of near psychosis that heavy cocaine use produces leads easily to violence. New York City police have attributed a recent rash of brutal crimes to young addicts virtually deranged by the new drug. According to Inspector William Molinari of the N.Y.P.D.'s narcotics division, there have been seven crack-related homicides in the city this month. In one instance, police say, Victor Aponte, a 16-year-old addict, confessed to stabbing his mother to death after she caught him smoking crack...
...stronger the craving for cocaine, the less a crack user cares for food. "You don't eat when you're smoking," says one California addict. Rats supplied with unlimited cocaine will use the drug until they die, ignoring food and water. Such intensely addictive behavior has helped change scientific opinion about cocaine's grip. Says Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan of New York City's Columbia-Presbyter ian Medical Center: "If anyone had doubts as to whether cocaine is physically addicting, all he has to do is look at a couple of crack users...
...heady bull markets of the past two years, more than a few hot young brokers on Wall Street have stoked up on drugs for frenetic trading sessions. Steve, a stockbroker and recovering addict, snorted cocaine in his office, in men's rooms, even in elevators. "It woke me up and gave me strength," he recalls. "It made me feel like J.P. Morgan...
...Students could watch MTV, movies and sports twenty-four hours a day," says a self-proclaimed TV addict who declined to reveal his identity...