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...nether world of the narcotics addict, a man's only loyalty is to himself. Richard Robles, a sallow-faced, 22-year-old junkie, learned that lesson too late last week when a Manhattan jury found him guilty of the sadistic murders of Career Girls Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert in August 1963. The most convincing evidence against Robles was provided by his two best friends, fellow addicts both...
Though crudely plotted, the movie offers some bruising glimpses of the drug addict's world. Director Mitchell turns his camera into streets alive with the ruthless, luckless desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear...
What the show is blessed with is Barbara Harris, a versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
Rugged Test. "The most dramatic effect of this treatment," report Drs. Dole and Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin...
Getz's success is a return from a long walk on the wild side; from the age of 18 to 27 he was a confirmed dope addict. Son of Russian Jewish immigrants (original name: Gayetzsky), he left school at 15 to tour with Jack Teagarden's band, got as far as St. Louis before the truant officers caught up with him. It was wartime, and musicians were scarce, so Teagarden agreed to become his legal guardian and "teach me all my lessons." After the band broke up a year later, Getz went on to play with Stan Kenton...