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...activity around the country. Not since the early days of the temperance movement, when Carry Nation took ax in hand and went about hacking up saloons, has the U.S. public seemed so determined to do something about substance abuse. There were church vigils and street-corner rallies, marches through dope-infested neighborhoods, and TV spots filmed to urge young people to resist the temptation to experiment with drugs. Showing the Administration's support for drug testing, the President and his Cabinet submitted to urinalysis...
Often it is the sleaziest of peers who pressure a budding star to get involved with dope. Says Julius Allen, a coach of the Each One, Teach One summer-league basketball team in New York City: "Even at the high school level, drug dealers want to associate with athletes because they are a status symbol." John Lo-Schiavo, president of the University of San Francisco, says the problem can get worse in college. "When a kid gets national acclaim and looks like he's going to be a top draft choice and so forth, there's a tendency...
...Regimented Inmate Discipline program, it is a paramilitary project designed to discourage young, first-time felons from pursuing a life of crime. Under constant harassment from prison officers, the participants are put through a regimen of grueling exercise and labor. After 90 days, the burglars, robbers and petty dope pushers are supposed to be transformed into confident, upstanding citizens...
...York City, the sleazy dealers peddling dope in Manhattan's Washington Heights call it "crack." In the south central part of Los Angeles, the desperate addicts chasing an ever more elusive high know it as "rock." On both coasts, and in Chicago, Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S., the drug by either name is an inexpensive yet highly potent, highly addictive form of cocaine that is rapidly becoming a scourge. Pushers sell pellet-size "rocks" in tiny plastic vials for as little as $10. Smoked rather than snorted, a single hit of crack provides an intense, wrenching rush...
...patient at New York City's Phoenix House drug rehabilitation center who got hooked on crack two years ago. The product of a troubled middle-class family, she was already a heavy drinker and pot smoker when she was introduced to coke by her older brother, a young dope pusher. "When you take the first toke on a crack pipe, you get on top of the world," she says...