Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extreme cases like the Hartford one, the argument for taking away custody seems compelling. The woman in question had been a cocaine addict since the age of 11, and continued to take drugs during pregnancy, even shooting up after her water broke. Nonetheless, the State Supreme Court ruled that since the fetus was not legally a person, it had no legal rights. In fact, it wasn't even legally a "child" yet, and the mother was not yet a "parent," so she couldn't be penalized for child abuse...
Because of these difficulties, "fetus abuse" is not a viable legal concept. But this doesn't mean that children born with a parent like the Hartford cocaine addict must be left at the mercy of their dysfunctional families forever. If a pregnant woman is observed shooting up in the delivery room (or some such egregious action), her name can surely be referred to social workers who will check in on the family after the child is born and see if the parents are still incompetent. Sadly, they will generally find enough grounds to remove the child anyway...
...under Medicine, or Law, or Business. In the past few months alone, tragedy has followed travesty has followed cautionary tale: the former heavyweight champion of the world is serving six years in jail for rape; the most famous soccer player in the world is found to be a cocaine addict; the five-time Wimbledon champion of a decade ago, a model of grace and poise on the court, is humiliated yet again in the divorce courts. Even a show-jumping competitor in England is charged with tampering with his horse...
...teenagers, Susan and her sister Lorraine are climbing out of their windows to rendezvous with boyfriends with police records. After graduating from Vassar, Susan becomes a successful feminist writer and then a heroin addict, street drug peddler and shoplifter. Lorraine, pregnant and married at 17, is also a heroin addict but switches to brown rice, three more husbands and homeopathic remedies at an ashram in Yogaville...
When he blazed to Broadway stardom and a Tony Award in 1969 playing an embittered drug addict in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Al Pacino showed a menacing fire. Three years later, in the most memorable of his six Oscar- nominated film roles, he revealed an even scarier core of ice as a Mafia don in the making in The Godfather. His intelligence, energy, aura of command and eerie humor should have made him America's leading classical actor. Instead, his career has been one of ample accomplishment but unfulfilled promise...