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...just when medical studies are reporting conclusions that should scare off new users and old. Until recently, when speaking of cocaine dependence, no one dared call it addiction: cocaine's withdrawal symptoms are not physically wrenching, as with heroin and alcohol. Nonetheless, says Dr. David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, "addiction is compulsion, loss of control and continued use in spite of the consequences. Cocaine is very addicting." What is more, and a fact many social snorters refuse to believe, coke can kill its users, and not just those who inject and free...
...cigarette machines in a bar." That seems a bit hyperbolic. But in North Beach, a funky neighborhood in San Francisco, the banks' "electronic teller" machines, which will dispense no more than $200 daily to each customer, attract long lines just before midnight every Saturday. "I'll bet you," says Haight-Ash-bury's Dr. Smith, "that 90% of them are taking out their next day's money to buy some coke...
...counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness. In 1980, as he was being arrested for the last time (for jumping into Charleston Harbor to "hunt sharks"), he kicked out the windows of a police squad car. Fortunately, according to Haight-Ashbury's Dr. Smith, cocaine psychosis can be moderated with antipsychotic drugs (like Haldol), and the hallucinations usually stop two to four days after the last dose of coke...
...pleased with the antigun crusade of the moderate mayor. But not all factions on the left: more determinedly upset than any of the conservative gun groups was the White Panther Party, a ragtag tribe of about a dozen communards encamped in an electric-blue town house in-yes-the Haight-Ashbury district. The Panthers were formed in the 1960s, and they still adhere to a position popular with the far left in that frenzied time: revolutionaries need weapons...
...created victims' compensation programs to repay some of the medical costs and lost income. Last week the nine-member President's Task Force on Victims of Crime urged all states to undertake such programs. "We've got to raise the status of the victim," said Lois Haight Herrington, who headed the task force. The report pointed out that the prey of criminals are afterward "oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them." Property used as evidence should be returned more promptly, said the task force, and victims should be permitted to speak when judges consider bail...