Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the former addicts were very critical of all drugs, including marijuana. "Any kid who says pot does not lead to other drugs is crazy," said one former addict...
...students, one an ex-addict and the other an ex-pusher, testified on heroin use in the suburbs, which they said was growing rapidly...
Helpern says, "because each addict's tolerance to heroin can vary not only from week to week but from day to day, depending on how much he has been using...
...become Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post. In Springfield, he relearned Lincoln Steffen's dictum that the cities are run on graft (and, now, its sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti, he learned that "the real details"--like the fact that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover...
...Federal Trade Commission, which two weeks ago concluded a two-year study of promotional lures, found that in one food-chain game that touted a 1 in 3 chance of winning, the actual odds came out to 1 in 15,373. Generally, according to the FTC, a game addict stands 3.4 chances in 1,000 of winning a prize that is worth only an average of $3.87. For those $1,000-and-up jackpots, the odds stretch out to 1 in 1.2 million...