Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CRANK...
Your story about the use of crank, or methamphetamine, in Billings, Mont., was very personal for me [NATION, June 22]. I am the father of "Paula," a young former addict whom you included in your report. Not only does crank ruin the users, it can also devastate everyone around them. Paula's mother and I spent nearly every waking moment for more than a year seeking help everywhere we could think of. Schools, hospitals and the police told us to go elsewhere. Paula finally realized that her addiction was eventually going to kill...
...filmmaker who has spent the past 28 months making a documentary on five long-term crank users in Los Angeles. As a rule, these addicts are bright, entrepreneurial, artistic, independent-minded, hopeful, spiritually oriented and profoundly alienated. All my subjects carry a burden of shame and deep-seated self-loathing. All cite profound loneliness, frustration, depression, anxiety and hopelessness as major factors implicated in using crank. They say they are medicating themselves. ANDREW ABRAMS, Chairman WorldView Foundation Sunland, Calif...
...report on the use of crank in Billings, Mont. [NATION, June 22], included a photograph of a popular disco where TIME's photographer was offered drugs. We did not mean to imply that any of the people shown in the picture had knowledge of or were involved in the purchase or use of drugs...
Probably the same place she left her looks, her education, her jobs, her little angel. Somewhere out there in crank city, in the dark--a dark that, no matter how hard Jennifer tries to stop it, always turns to dawn...