Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the show is blessed with is Barbara Harris, a versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...promising new treatment that permits heroin addicts to kick the habit was reported last week by two New York City physicians. It involves switching from heroin, which can cost the addict $25 or more a day-and is almost certain to involve him in crime -to methadone, a relatively harmless drug that costs 10? for a daily dose. Methadone's only significant side effect is constipation...
...Institute and Dr. Marie Nyswander of Manhattan General Hospital report that after considering other drugs as heroin substitutes, they hit upon methadone, a synthetic painkiller made from coal-tar extracts and marketed by Eli Lilly & Co. as Dolophine. A short course of methadone, the doctors knew, would ease the addict's first pangs of withdrawal from heroin. But they also knew that more than 80% of "cured" addicts promptly relapsed, and they wondered whether continued treatment with methadone would keep them off their "horse...
Rugged Test. "The most dramatic effect of this treatment," report Drs. Dole and Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin...
Getz's success is a return from a long walk on the wild side; from the age of 18 to 27 he was a confirmed dope addict. Son of Russian Jewish immigrants (original name: Gayetzsky), he left school at 15 to tour with Jack Teagarden's band, got as far as St. Louis before the truant officers caught up with him. It was wartime, and musicians were scarce, so Teagarden agreed to become his legal guardian and "teach me all my lessons." After the band broke up a year later, Getz went on to play with Stan Kenton...