Word: doping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1982, when the Dispute with Dope really got cooking, there has been little reduction in the amount of narcotics coursing through the veins of the nation. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey of 1990, drug abuse rates were essentially flat, war or no war. Among 18-25 year-olds, marijuana use declined only slightly, from 27% to 22%. Cocaine was up a tad, reaching 8% from its starting point at 7%. And hallucinogens remain at a static...
Kevorkian says that he always tries to talk people who come to him out of killing themselves. But some circumstances, he believes, produce the mental anguish that may justify suicide. "You can't dope up a quadriplegic," he argues. "There's no pain to alleviate, but the anguish in the head is immense, especially after five or 10 years of lying on your back looking up at the ceiling." He says he would love to debate the critics who charge that he is too hasty in deciding who may die. "I will argue with them if they will allow themselves...
Like every other trend in pop music, the new pot proselytizing has inspired its own paraphernalia. Some aficionados hollow out Phillies Blunt cigars and fill them with dope. (For those unsure of the technique, rapper Redman's new song How to Roll a Blunt provides instructions.) PHILLIES BLUNT T shirts have gone mainstream, sometimes topped off with the marijuana-leaf baseball caps that have replaced X caps as the hot hat on the street...
...Square, the third adventure of Arkady Renko, the Russian detective of Gorky Park and Polar Star, touches the imagination in a powerful, brooding way that seems very Russian. Give or take Richard Price's Clockers, a story of New Jersey cops and dope sellers that has some of the same strengths, it may be the best thriller to appear in several years. But Edmund Wilson's contemptuous dismissal of detective stories still lashes: Is it feebleminded to care who killed Roger Ackroyd...
...most pleasant surprise on Floored Genius is "Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed," an underproduced gem from the nearly unfindable Skellington (1990) that sounds something like the Velvet Underground with the Opportunes singing backup. It's almost enough to give you hope for a Julian Cope comeback--too bad the last three songs here are drawn from 1991's truly execrable Peggy Suicide...