Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile in New York, where so much of the ugly action takes place, Correspondent Karsten Prager interviewed ten youngsters at Odyssey House where ex-addicts encourage newcomers as young as twelve to kick the habit. John Austin spent a chilling evening in suburban Westchester County, N.Y., with middle-class high school students who talked freely about police officers, teachers and even doctors who know but don't care about the kids' problem. Other expertise was supplied by Douglas Gasner, whose experience as TIME'S Medicine reporter was invaluable for the box on symptoms parents should watch...
...eyes and pale arms so thin that it is almost impossible to believe that they could take a needle. But Ralphie is a junkie. He has not only used heroin, but he has also taken part in muggings and sold 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...
...ends, there is the frantic scramble for a new supply in order to shoot up once again, to escape one more time into compulsive oblivion. As the junkie develops tolerance for the drug, he must use ever increasing amounts to reach the same high?thus the price of a habit can run as high as $100 a day. If he shoots too little, he does not get the kick he wants; if he shoots too much, he risks coma and death from an overdose. An overdose depresses the brain's control of breathing, slowing respiration to the point where...
Except for marijuana, Jeffrey has now been clean?off drugs?for several months. "Heroin is a death trip," he says today. "I really enjoyed it. But once you get the habit, you're in trouble. One good friend is in the hospital with an $80-a-day habit. Another is almost dead from hepatitis. Two others I know, one a girl, died from overdoses. Every time you stick that needle in your arm, you're playing with your life...
...Perverse Habit. Actually, solar eclipses are fairly common. As many as five can occur in a single year, although they invariably last no more than a few minutes and often frustrate astronomers by what Veteran Eclipse Watcher Donald H. Menzel of Harvard calls their "perverse habit of hitting desolate regions." Because of its favorable viewing path and timing-near the peak of the sun's eleven-year sunspot cycle-the March 7 eclipse is being eagerly awaited by astronomers...