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...cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...
...smoking marijuana and "chipping" (occasionally taking) heroin. By 17, he was up to regular "snorting" (inhaling) and "skin popping" (taking heroin by nonintravenous injection). Cold-turkey withdrawals in jail did not work, and he seemed condemned to the hopeless life of a full-fledged drug addict. But last year a family-guidance counselor referred him to Leon Brill, an associate of Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. That may have been the first piece of good luck in B.'s unhappy life. Jaffe and Brill asked him to join...
...physiological need for narcotics, however, is only one of the many things that hook a user. The two other major contributors are the user's psychological makeup and his conditioned behavioral pattern-the strong likelihood that a return to old haunts and old friends will ease the post-addict back into old habits. Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope...
There was little question that Narcotics Addict Charles Freeman had actually been pushing heroin. And it was hardly surprising that the court found him guilty-despite the defense contention that Freeman may have known that what he was doing was wrong, but had neither the capacity nor the will to be responsible for his acts. The judge was simply following a century-old precedent; he was applying the M'Naghten Rule, which holds that a man may be judged not responsible or insane only if he did not know what he was doing, or did not know that what...
...Sade is a fascinating figure; Edmund Wilson and Simone de Beauvoir have written studies on him, and the London-Broadway hit Marat/ Sade, as well as a new paperback edition of his writings, testifies to renewed public interest. But it is also true that he is the compulsive addict of every conceivable extremity within the technical possibilities of the human sexual apparatus. What he could not do he dreamed, and what he dreamed, he wrote. His letters can be analyzed in seven deeply felt but wonderfully inconsistent categories: 1) he didn't do it (he had been accused...