Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
...finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
Heroin Hunting. The most startling description of the addict's New York came from a talented 25-year-old, who had made up to $245 a week as a musician, composer and arranger, but had turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
...Avenue in midtown Manhattan; so was the Garden Cafeteria across from Madison Square Garden. "You just walk in ... get a cup of coffee . . . put your money down, pick up the drugs and leave . . ." In a B-G Coffee Shop ". . . it's more of a high-class type of addict ... Cocaine buyers hang around there...