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...recently smashed a ring selling drugs at lunchtime from a camper in the parking lot. In Manhattan, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has dismissed more than 100 employees during the past year for using drugs. "Wall Street firms are scared to death about drugs," reports Ernie Odom, an ex-addict who has charged companies $200 for his well-attended seminars on drug detection. In Detroit, an assembly-line worker at the Dodge plant notes: "Guys are always stoned. Either they're high from pills to keep them awake or they're zonked on a joint they...
...Lifting. Attorney General John Mitchell estimates that one out of every 40 workers in the U.S. uses drugs illegally. A survey by Chicago's Industrial Relations Newsletter concluded that three out of every four U.S. plants with 50 or more employees have a serious drug problem. The addict's sharply curtailed job performance is only part of the problem for corporations. To support their habit, drug-dependent workers often become pushers and ensnare co-workers into narcotic addiction...
Today's version of the Great American Tragedy is teen-age drug addiction. Milton Travers is a pseudonymous magazine writer whose 18-year-old son Ricky became a speed freak and vanished into New York's East Village. In Each Other's Victims, Travers describes how he tracked Ricky down and tried to rescue him. He is brisk, professional and explicit-about his son's life as an addict, about his own confused, guilt-soaked reactions, about the grubby details of the drug culture, or at least that part of it involving amphetamines. Except...
Everyman an Addict...
When Bruce's father discovered his habit, he sent him to live for a time with relatives in rural Virginia ("Even there I managed to get dope"). A year ago, Bruce's father brought him back to Harlem and placed him immediately in the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, an overcrowded, financially squeezed but markedly successful operation run by an ex-addict named James Allen. After nine months at A.R.C., Bruce enrolled at Harlem Prep...