Word: addictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operation of the project as its own entity grows a keen sense of family. Every day residents meet in the den or family room for the "morning focus," during which general problems and goals are discussed. During the stay--which can last anywhere from nine to 13 months--an addict, depending on his progress, will be granted certain privileges, like the opportunity to receive visitors or to leave the building for a visit home. The difficult rehabilitation process hinges on the obligation of "family" members to support one another...
...former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo...
...Reagan administration, governed by the long-term misconception that drug addiction is a moral failure and not a physiological phenomenon rooted in serious social inequities, is treating drug problems as a low priority item. There are an estimated 12,000 heroin addicts living in Massachusetts, and the number of emergency room heroin-related cases in the state's hospitals is up by 4 or 5 percent. Rehabilitaion officials are finding the Reagan budget curs crippling to an already chronically underfunded social service. The combined effects of the recently passed federal block grants, Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, and budget cuts...
...addict speaks of his experience with methodone. "I, like anybody else who uses the stuff, just transferred addictions. The government says we can't do dope, so we line up at the juice center and get methodone instead. Half the junkies out there are addicted to methodone and mixing it with other drugs. When I was on methadone, because it was such a downer, I would get my treatment dose, start to nod, them mix it with a little coke so I could keep tuned in. The withdrawal from methadone is far more severe than from heroin, and it takes...
Where did Baby Love go wrong? His mother, Rose, 31, does not deny that she was a drug addict. "I'm an alcoholic too," she adds. She gave up legal custody of her children to Aunt Cora last year. According to Rose, Baby Love's father is an alcoholic, a drug addict and a bisexual. He was doing time at Attica during the prison's 1971 riots, shrugs Rose, and "he flipped his brains. That's why I divorced him." His father beat Baby Love up often with his fists, says Rose, and once...