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They look like heroin, they act like heroin, and they satisfy an addict's urge just like the real thing. But when subjected to a chemist's scrutiny, the narcotics that have been flooding California turn out to be something else. They are "designer drugs"--designed, that is, to get around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death By Design | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...arrested officer, Commander Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez, died in police custody. Mexican authorities, insisting that Gonzalez died of natural causes, described him as a cocaine addict and an "intimate friend" of alleged Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero. But U.S. officials considered Gonzalez trustworthy: as Jalisco's top homicide detective for Guadalajara, Gonzalez had been investigating the Camarena kidnaping and the disappearance of six other Americans in recent months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Links: Mexico's corrupt police | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...such moments Self sounds the novel's underlying theme: a culture geared to profit from the immediate gratification of egos and nerve endings is not a culture at all, but an addiction. As an addict, he discovers that bad habits and ignorance are the bars of self-imprisonment. "Look at my private culture," he cries. "It really isn't very nice in here. And that is why I long to burst out of the world of money and into--into what? Into the world of thought and fascination. How do I get there? Tell me, please. I'll never make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One More Fat Englishman Money: a Suicide Note | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...wife." The First Lady delivers speeches more often and more effectively, and recently engaged an outside writer to provide her with new, improved material. She has plunged into unfamiliar territory, sitting on Mr. T's lap at a White House Christmas celebration, opening her arms to a young addict at a California drug rehabilitation clinic and, in Peking last spring, responding gracefully when Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping suggested to her that "next time" she "come alone." A few weeks ago she agreed to spend time with drug-addicted inmates at a jail in the heartland. But the new gusto goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Co-Starring At the White House | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...have been there otherwise--under the tree for kids like 3-year-old Susan whose father dead in September and lost all her toys when her welfare mother's apartment burned up last month, and orphan Mary Jo, whose father deserted her when she was born and whose drug addict mother left four years...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Christmas on the Globe | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

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