Word: habitant
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...Dick Cavett Show should be required to carry the label "May be habit forming...
...G.I.s use hard drugs. New York Congressman Seymour Halpern, just back from Viet Nam, puts that figure as high as 60,000, most of them on heroin. There are an estimated 250,000 addicts in the U.S. Some authorities believe that if 75% of them supported their habit by committing crimes the cost to the country would exceed $8 billion yearly. With the return of the addicted veterans, the cost of heroin in dollars, in violence and more subtly in broken lives and suffering, becomes even harder to reckon. Just last week in Detroit, seven addicts were massacred...
...eighth-graders who graduated last year have gone on to a traditional high school with no worse traits than an unnerving habit of demanding reasons for what their teachers make them do. For anxious parents, standardized tests provide the most encouraging results of all. During each of the past two years, Wilde Lake's students have outscored those in all of the county's other middle schools...
...react intensely to everything: instead of soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick to adapt. And the slow-to-warm-ups are just that: not very active at first, rather negative in mood, and likely to back off from new situations...
...relieves the symptoms of narcotic withdrawal, blocks heroin's euphoric effects and allows an addict to lead a relatively normal life. But methadone also has its drawbacks. It is almost as addictive as the heroin it replaces, and most addicts must indefinitely maintain their new, though less destructive, habit. Because methadone is short-acting, it must be taken daily; addicts starting treatment must either report to a clinic for daily dosages or be given several days' supply at a time, a practice that opens the door to abuse...