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Only a decade ago, a heroin epidemic threatened Japan. An estimated 40,000 addicts provided a market for the growing traffic in hard drugs, and some users brazenly mainlined on street corners in such areas as Yokohama s Kogane-cho (Gold Town). Today, says Dr. Yoshio Ishikawa of the Sengayaen mental hospital, heroin addiction "has become a subject without a living example for study, like smallpox," and medical students may finish their entire education without seeing an actual addict. Police and narcotics agents face the same triumphant scarcity...
...while the police are busy bunting Benson and Janet is sipping coffee in the staffroom--is the time for some exposition. The book contains an ample number of thoughtful, "relevant" digressions: an aside about the Los Angeles's "indigenous depersonalization syndrome" (p. 138), an interview with a potential "pleasure-addict" who wants to have the pleasure centers of his brain wired for continual stimulation (pages 82 to 84), and references throughout to the ascendancy of the machine. We are treated to a titillating hint of Janet's sex life (Arthur, the owner of "a yellow Ferrari, a lot of dash...
...love him because I grew up with him, knowing him as a kid; he gives such credit to his audiences' imagination. I got high on it." Franco Zeffirelli obviously not only spotted York's acting ability, or his ugly good looks, but also detected in him a fellow addict, a lasting enthusiast for the genius of the Bard...
...French officials announced that the narcotics haul was the largest in history: 937 Ibs. of pure heroin worth between $180 million and $400 million on the streets of New York City, depending on the extent to which it is diluted. It was enough to supply every addict in the U.S. for a month...
Writing verses can help "hostile and disruptive students control their chaotic emotions," Sciences reports. One such student, an ex-addict at Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, wanted to hit people, leave school or begin mainlining again to get back at guidance counselors who, she felt, had misled her with false hopes. Encouraged to substitute words for deeds, the girl raged in verse: "I don't like what you've done/ I'll put you all up against the wall/ And execute you all./ I'll have you destroyed./ Remember...