Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...user. The original kilo has now grossed $225,000 for suppliers, traffickers, pushers and peddlers. The first user often splits the nickel bag into even smaller quantities that he resells for $2 or $3, making a profit that he himself can use to help support his habit. Because the addict often does not know just how strong the stuff he has bought really is, he can easily give himself an overdose that makes him unconscious or even kills...
...areas where such programs are inadequate, parents unfortunately have little choice but to go to the police. That step is a difficult one to contemplate, but a hooked child is almost certain to end up in police hands anyway as he steals to maintain his ever more expensive habit...
...addict patient could not be persuaded to undergo a cure or enter an institution. The program had one obvious advantage: by making drugs legally available, it eliminated the addict's dependence on black-market suppliers and made it unnecessary for him to steal to support his habit...
...blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold a job, something that few heroin users can do. But methadone itself is addictive, which means that those who use it must either be helped to taper off from the synthetic, or continue their habit for the rest of their lives. Methadone advocates maintain that this is no worse than a diabetic's daily use of insulin...
...small, controlled therapeutic community. These residential communities first detoxify, then attempt to rehabilitate the drug user by restructuring his eqo and life pattern. Some, like California's famed Synanon, are run largely by former addicts. They accept only those who have proved their determination to kick the heroin habit, and seek to increase the addict's understanding of himself and his problems through often brutal group-encounter sessions. Others, like New York's city-run Phoenix and Horizon Houses, utilize both ex-addicts and professionals...