Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quintessentially suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, David, 21, was not reduced to stealing from his family to support his five-gram, $750-a-week habit. Instead, during six months last year, he embezzled $20,000 from the camera store where he worked. His thefts were discovered just before Thanksgiving, but the police were not called, and David's father repaid the $20,000. David cannot figure it. "I was the all-American kid who had never been in trouble," he says. "I was popular. I taught religion classes at the synagogue. How could a well-brought...
Trop's climb back was arduous. He had sold off his art collection and mortgaged his house to pay for his habit. He went through a series of treatment clinics and rebuilt his marriage and career. Even though he has not had cocaine in nearly three years, he is on guard...
...snorted coke occasionally but preferred the more mellow high of heroin, which a classmate gave her during her senior year. Soon she was hooked. After two years of college in New York and two more years abroad, Coleman settled in Manhattan. She tried to kick her heroin habit, enrolling in a methadone program. But soon she discovered an irresistible thrill: speedballs, injections of coke and heroin mixed together. She thus acquired a craving for the drug she had once dismissed. "The intense flash from the cocaine was so wonderful that if I only had $20 I'd buy coke...
...initially bought her drugs from friends, but as her speedballing grew to a $300a-day habit, she had to buy on the street. "At first I was scared," she says. "But then it became a part of it that I really liked, going into a really bad neighborhood...
When Claire Grenewald, a Summit, N.J., high school sophomore, made a habit of staying out late with her steady boyfriend, her parents bought her a beeper. Whenever she is 15 minutes past her 11:30 p.m. curfew, her parents dial a telephone number that causes a tiny electronic device stashed in her purse to beep, reminding her that it is time to go home. The elder Grenewalds also take the beeper along on their frequent trips to New York City. Says Susan Grenewald: "The kids can just buzz us if anything important happens. It means...