Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's nothing here for me," says Jeffrey Hickman, 18, a Villa Griffin resident. "Only dope, gangs and shooting every night. I'll stay and graduate from school, but there's no way I can make something of myself here. I got to go someplace else, anyplace. Maybe the Coast Guard...
...made in the U.S. Instead, Bush would outlaw only the manufacture of magazines that hold 15 or more rounds. Gun-control advocates and many police organizations argue that Bush's program falls far short of what is needed to keep lethal semiautomatics out of the hands of trigger-happy dope dealers and other criminals...
...stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope!" An old hymn like Amazing Grace percolates with urgent rhythms. Secular songs like Higher and Higher gain turbo power as spirituals. At the end, everyone joins hands in a big chain of redemption...
Larry Bruce, the extraordinary dope lawyer, believes few retire voluntarily. "Some make it out," he says, "but this crank business is getting bigger. It's no longer limited to the backwoods, bikers and interstate truckers. It seems to me that I'm seeing as many arrests for possession of meth as for cocaine, and my user clients caught with meth are frequently young professionals and students. The business may be terrible -- it is terrible -- but you're looking at capitalism in action here. I wonder if it may be building toward critical mass...
...ignorance and insensitive treatment from [doctors] who are supposedly qualified," said Steve D. Oliva, who described himself as the "token middle-class, heterosexual dope fiend" on the panel...