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Late morning. Harlem Hospital. Doris White (not her real name), 32, pulls her thin robe across her narrow, bony chest and lights a cigarette. Her dark arms are riddled with small, round scars, the hieroglyphs of chronic heroin abuse. She is here for the seventh time in two years. In 1982 she brought her four- year-old son Rashan to this same hospital. The boy was listless, losing weight; he had white spots on his lips and tongue. The boy's father, a drug addict, had recently come out of prison and was not at all well himself...
...creating group homes for AIDS sufferers and recruiting volunteers to staff hot lines, there is almost no support for AIDS sufferers who are addicts. A 34-year-old black homosexual in Manhattan says he was able to "plug into" gay support groups "for emotional and physical help." But in Harlem, he laments, afflicted addicts "just wait for death, which often comes on the street because so many of them are homeless...
Mental health officials are beginning to bow to pressure from parents and medical professionals to create programs tailored for drug-dependent mentally ill youngsters. "There's been a tremendous grass-roots campaign to convince the mental health bureaucracy of the problem," says Kathleen Sciacca, a substance-abuse coordinator at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York. Indeed, this fall the National Institute of Mental Health plans to fund 13 pilot treatment programs. Says Talbott: "We know what approaches are necessary to treat these people. We just need to use them...
...after two days of wining and dining by students, deans and admissions officers, Rumayor, the first person ever admitted to Harvard from Harlem's A. Philip Randolph High School, says she has decided to join the class...
...drab, dreary, bombed-out London. And there are some unaccustomed small inaccuracies that further tarnish the golden glow: the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey are not officially part of the city subway system, and Van Cortlandt Park is in the Bronx, more than six miles north of Harlem...