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...suspect, a heroin addict on probation who was undergoing withdrawal, apparently misunderstood. He promised that if the police did not arrest him, he would give them information about recent thefts...
...Rockefeller's narcotics program is scandalous," Goldberg says. He has promised to provide treatment within six months for every addict who wants it, and has even said he would walk ghetto streets himself to be sure heroin is no longer being openly sold. Rockefeller candidly admits the seriousness of the situation even while he emphasizes his efforts to alter...
...Angeles physicians expressed concern over the belief, held by a growing number of drug addicts, that milk is capable of neutralizing the effects of heroin. Apparently believing that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before...
...break open the box," says New York Hackie Milt Pashkin. San Francisco cabbies refuse to use cashboxes already installed because they fear mixups over money after the boxes are unlocked at the garage. Other cabbies feel that even the lure of a $5 haul is enough for an addict desperate for a fix. Or, as a New York cabby put it, "they might beat up the driver because he's not carrying enough money. Lockboxes are fine for the owners because they protect the profits. No wonder owners are all for the idea, even though the cabby...
...hundred Bradley Hospital graduates have been studied intensively by Drs. Leon Eisenberg and C. Keith Conners of Massachusetts General Hospital. "There is not a single case of a child becoming a drug addict of any kind," says Eisenberg. The stimulants that produce a high in an adult do not have this effect in a child, Eisenberg says. It may be that the child's body metabolizes the drug differently from an adult...