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...changing American life. They are struggling to adhere to the values by which they have been raised amidst an era of upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that Cadillac for God.") These survivors of the rural lower middle class put their faith in an authoritarian figure who facilitates an escape from their repression while promising the persistence of a social...
...narcotics problem, the Government should make this standing offer: any confirmed addict who betrays his supplier to the authorities will be rewarded with a lifetime prescription to his favorite stuff, free injections at any federal dispensary (or the cure if he prefers). When pushers are afraid of their own customers, they will abandon the business and retail outlets will dry up. There might be complications, protecting informers from retaliation, but the principle is a sound one with potential for great impact on illegal trade...
...Included in the group were an alcoholic drug addict, a suicidal male homosexual and psychotics of several types...
...hard times is slipping quality. Even after being cut with sugar and powdered milk, retail heroin used to be about 10% pure; now the range is from 3% to 7%. So low is the potency nowadays that the "good stuff," when it is available, may kill an unwary addict. San Antonio has had twelve overdose deaths in the past nine weeks because someone?perhaps an inexperienced pusher?has been peddling heroin that is 53% pure...
What could the U.S. narcs do about it? Plenty, as it turned out. One evening in February 1971, the acting Tocumen transit chief, Joaquin Him Gonzales, a baseball addict, drove into the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to see a local game, and the feds pounced. Flown to the U.S. and tried in Dallas, Him is serving a five-year rap for narcotics conspiracy in a Texas jail. Washington has ignored the protests of Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos and his brother Mois?...