Word: gerber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Last week Ralphie was in Manhattan's Odyssey House, in a group therapy session with a psychiatrist and a dozen ex-addicts aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted to go back home to The Bronx. The doctor, Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder of Odyssey House, and Ralphie's young friends there were trying to make him recognize that if he left them, he would have no chance to break out of the vicious circle of heroin addiction. Ralphie stayed for two more days. Then he went home...
...Synanon, where success with adult addicts who stay within the supportive framework of the house is high but sadly lower with those who leave completely, Synanon Official Bill Ullman contends: "There is no cure for heroin." Dr. Densen-Gerber believes that teen-agers will be easier to help than adult addicts, if only because they are more resilient physically and emotionally and highly responsive to peer group influence inside a treatment center. But she is at a loss to deal with the Ralphies, the pre-teen junkies who are unable to comprehend that the alternatives to treatment are jail...
...problem is of staggering proportions. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder and psychiatric director of New York's Odyssey House, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, calls it an epidemic. The first young heroin users began appearing at her clinic only last June, she says. Today the traffic is more than Odyssey House can handle-four to six junior junkies every day. To accommodate the overflow, Dr. Densen-Gerber has opened two branches solely for youthful addicts. One of her first applicants: a nine-year...
...machinery exists even to measure the incidence of youthful drug use, much less to control it. There are scarcely any treatment centers in the country exclusively for youthful addicts. In New York City, petty-minded authorities are trying to close one of them. This month in court, Dr. Densen-Gerber will defend Odyssey House against charges of operating without a license and violating the building code...