Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addict, 16: You gonna shoot dope, Ralphie. You gonna be in jail or you gonna be dead. The pushers ain't gonna disappear just 'cause you comin' home, Ralphie...
Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
...heroin traffic, notably in New York City and Miami, is financed and handled by the Mafia, but over the past five years more and more independents and amateurs have crowded into the act: Cubans, Puerto Ricans, blacks, even a few hippies. Top Mafia bosses supposedly banned all dope peddling in 1957 to clean up their image and avoid prosecutions, but, as Informer Joe Valachi said in 1963, "there is always somebody sneaking...
...spreads among vandals, and "midnight plumbers" move in to tear out everything that can be sold. A Baltimore housing official describes the process: "On the first night, the building is looted. With the plumbing gone, the building is no longer habitable. The next night, or soon, the kids on dope slide in. Then the neighborhood's apprentice arsonist pays a visit." Such social disorder is infectious and it is often the prime factor that impels law-abiding ghetto dwellers to flight...
Dramatic Conversion. First in Boston, then in New York as a teen-ager in the early 1940s, he donned a zoot suit and painfully "conked" his hair. He graduated from show-stopping Lindy Hopper to pimp to taker and pusher of marijuana and dope. Malcolm X's scorn for authority, black or white, 30 years ago, presents remarkable parallels to youthful attitudes today. It was not merely that everyone he knew used marijuana and bitterly resented the white cops who tried to deprive them of it. They also regarded World War II as a white establishment disaster, like Viet...