Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them in my suitcase and the first night home, I smoked and left the bag under the bed instead of hiding it. One of my brothers found it and brought it to my parents. They were really horrified and they thought I was a real drug addict. They threw all of it down the toilet. They are really paranoid about drugs. They suspect me of being stoned when...
Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner best remembered by his countrymen as one of their early poets, but he was also a journalist, self-taught naturalist and morphine addict. Such fame as he enjoyed outside Africa came mainly from the scandal caused when famous Belgian Writer Maurice Maeterlinck stole a lengthy excerpt of Marais's Afrikaans text. The Soul of the White Ant, and published it under his own name. Marais shot himself in 1936. Shortly after, his complete study of white ants, i.e., termites, and a slim, chatty book of reminiscences about baboons were published in Europe. Marais...
...calling Vidal "queer," Buckley apologizes for doing so "in anger," but he still considers Vidal an "evangelist for bisexuality" whose "essays proclaim the normalcy of his affliction and his art the desirability of it." He is "not to be confused with the man who bears his sorrow quietly. The addict is to be pitied and even respected, not the pusher...
Jane K., a former addict, said, "Living in the suburbs, you aren't aware of the police. A sentence of two years--you can't even conceive...
Four officials of various rehabilitation programs spoke on different means to help an addict to kick his habit. One of the more disputed methods is methadome, a drug which reportedly has no addictive qualities, yet can get an addict of heroin and functioning normally without any bad side effects. Often former addicts stay on methadome treatment for a long period of time...