Word: gelineau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrated in the nation's ghettos, officials are seeing evidence of a new breed of "upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most of their peers are content...
...already chronically underfunded social service. The combined effects of the recently passed federal block grants, Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, and budget cuts of up to 30 per cent have endangered many of the state's 18 residential treatment programs, and have drastically curtailed preventive education programs. As Gelineau points out, considering that the average addict commits two and one-half crimes a day in order to get the $100 to $600 needed to support his habit, it is clear that the cost to society of neglecting drug rehabilitation remains far greater than the money saved by budget cuts. Officials...