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Where had this cache come from? BDAC agents traced a Fixaco shipment eastward to a New York City pier where it was marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...
Asleep at 60. There must be many other channels. BDAC headquarters in Washington estimate that only half of the 5 billion amphetamine tablets produced in the U.S. each year are sold legally on prescription as psychic stimulants and appetite depressants. The rest filter into the black market...
After drivers and hippies, the biggest consumers of illegal bennies are students cramming for exams, which partly explains why the BDAC has recently enlisted coeds and young agents to infiltrate college groups. BDAC has nothing to do with such notorious narcotics as heroin and morphine, which are policed by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics. Though BDAC has been given responsibility for surveillance of LSD, its main concern is with the amphetamines, barbiturates and the milder tranquilizers, which are legal on prescription and medically valuable-but are nonetheless dangerous when bandied about on campuses and highways...
...Part of BDAC's answer is to tap such teen-age idols as Paul Newman, whose hip and he-man manner make him an ideal narrator for its film Bennies and Goofballs, some 200 copies of which are now circulating among schools and youth groups. Even more effective are hard-hitting documentary films in which the cameras simply train on the young addicts themselves. Almost every junior high school student in Boston, for example, has seen the movie Hooked at least once in the past two years. In the film, one teen-ager straightforwardly tells how she once stole...
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