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Like thousands of other addicts, Dan Smith spent most of his life trying to support his heroin habit. Hooked at 17, he was subsequently convicted 18 times for drug possession and related offenses. Neither fear of jail nor intensive efforts by doctors freed him from drugs. But today Smith's life is significantly different. At 42, he is married, and he recently left his job as a shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops...
...Habit. For all its dramatic effects, methadone therapy still stirs strong argument within the medical profession. The debate began in 1964 when Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander first started using the drug to wean addicts away from heroin. Methadone programs, which cost an average of $1,500 a year for each addict-as opposed to $5,000 to $10,000 for a year in prison -are operating in most major U.S. cities. About 10,000 of the country's estimated 200,000 heroin victims now participate in some form of methadone treatment; thousands more are waiting to enroll...
...relieves pain and eases the symptoms of heroin withdrawal without producing euphoria or the craving for ever-increasing dosages. But methadone has one quality in common with the heroin it replaces: it is just as addictive. Most of those who use it must continue their new, though less destructive habit indefinitely. While less painful than heroin withdrawal, kicking methadone can take longer. For most patients, the result is hardly worth the effort. A long-term heroin habit so alters the body's chemical makeup that life without opiates is virtually impossible. Therefore most addicts who give up methadone quickly...
...significance of their success is social and economic as well as medical. Methadone addicts obtain their drug legally and hence inexpensively. They can work to support themselves. Because most heroin addicts are forced to steal to sustain their habit, they now cost the country about $ 1 billion a year...
...whole conversation. So he stood there, and I sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education of Henry Adams-and finally retreated to the toilet. Lowell indignantly recalled the Sun King's lamentable habit of giving audiences from a toilet throne. "If you were Louis XIV, you wouldn't mind," Lowell shouted through the closed door...