Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work on a projected 14-volume edition of his collected writings. The first two volumes consist of 707 letters handsomely printed and annotated, and apparently not so much as a postcard to a landlady has escaped. It is a curious collection, not only for the Whitmaniac or the addict of Americana, but for all who find interest in what a genius talks about when he is not being...
...without good reason that Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, dope addict though he was, was called The Inflexible, and never did he have greater need of his stubbornness than when he marched on Persia. For 116 days the wily Shah of Persia dodged and retreated, laying waste the land as he did. But finally the two hosts met near the town of Caldiran in what is now eastern Turkey. The Ottoman army had guns, the Persians did not; and at the end of that battle in 1514, 25,000 Persian horsemen lay dead. For the Shah, the defeat...
...million operation. Few of his friends expect him to stop there. Says one: "David is after more than money. Just what it is. I don't know." Murdock thinks he does. "The thrill of achievement," he says, "is to me as the shot is to the dope addict. You may beat me, but I'll come back and come back and come back until I beat you or drop dead...
Federal and state laws on narcotics, together with court rulings and the regulations of the Bureau of Narcotics, are aimed mainly at preventing or penalizing the sale and possession of the drugs, not at rehabilitating the addict. The need for such laws arose almost half a century ago, when physicians unwittingly created ari army estimated at 250,000 addicts by too freely prescribing morphine as a painkiller. After possession of nonprescription narcotics was made a crime, the law cracked down so hard on prescription peddling that cautious physicians began to turn away addicts appealing to them for treatment. They still...
Realizing that it might be stirring up a hornets' nest, the commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling...