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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...present flow of narcotics to the West is capable of supporting a savage rise in consumption???and with it, savage rises in crime, in crippled lives and in deaths. Hard statistics are hard to come by, but the best Government estimates put the U.S. heroin-addict population at 560,000?ten times the level of 1960 and almost double what it was only two years ago. On the average, a U.S. addict spends $8,000 a year to support his habit; in New York City, with an addict population of more than 300,000, as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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