Word: doped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flourished particularly in the 19th century: Coleridge, who took dope; Blake, who thundered against "old Nobodaddy aloft"; Rossetti, who buried his sonnets with his dead wife and exhumed both later when he needed material to fill a book...
...appeared on almost every major TV series going, and some that have already gone. In the past two seasons, she has been pregnant and unmarried (The Nurses), a dope addict (The New Breed) and an assault suspect (The Defenders); she has suffered medical miseries ranging from a simple subdural hematoma (Dr. Kildare) to epilepsy (Ben Casey], will appear next month as a girl about to enter a convent (Empire). She played the second Mrs. De Winter (to James Mason's Mr.) in a widely acclaimed special of Rebecca, and won a slew of awards for her performance...
...monstrous snake pit. Behind the façade of an administration building that looks like the White House, it was crowded to its rotten, rat-infested rafters with 12,000 patients. At least 3,000 were senile oldsters who did not belong there-any more than the epileptics, dope addicts or alcoholics who jammed the hospital. Comparatively few patients ever got better, and those who did succeeded mainly on their own resources, for among Milledgeville's 50 doctors, many of dubious repute, were only three psychiatrists...
Americans are quite willing to join an organization provided they get a membership card, pay dues that are taxdeductible, and get away from home at least one night a week. But alcoholics, gamblers and dope addicts who join such organizations as A.A., G.A., and Synanon have a special purpose. To get off the sauce, the dice or the pot, they need will power. And obviously will power languishes in loneliness but thrives in company...
Such a one is Candy Latson, 26, a Houston-born Negro who started using dope when he was 15. He has twice done time in Los Angeles County jail. "I got to the honor camp once there. I went in clean, but I came out hooked again," he says. Through Synanon, Candy learned insight: "I kept telling myself I had four strikes against me: I had only a seventh-grade education, I was black. I was a dope addict, and I had a record. I was using my misfortunes for an excuse to keep using dope." Last week Candy Latson...