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Part of the problem is that to the young, the adult world sets only a hypocritical example. Parents warn their children against pot, which most kids find harmless. Many of the young smoke marijuana and leave it at that, although Dr. Louria warns that "if a young person smokes marijuana on more than ten occasions, the chances are one in five that he will go on to more dangerous drugs." As Larry Alan Bear, New York City's addiction services commissioner, sees it: "In some cases, the attitude toward the straight world is, 'Look, you kill yourselves with cigarettes...
HEROIN was believed to be harmless when it was developed in Germany in 1898 as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant. Only later was it realized that it was twice as potent as morphine. No one treatment for heroin addiction works in all cases, and there are almost as many approaches to the problem as there are experts...
...elaborate labor of society and has the responsibility to do something of value. Isolation is a method of solving a problem, not a way of life." What brought him out of the laboratory in 1953 was strontium 90, a product of atmospheric nuclear-bomb tests then considered harmless. Commoner's restless intellectual curiosity was aroused; he studied all available research on radioactive fallout. What he found frightened him -and he set out to share his concern with others...
...spent most of his life opening doors-generally for other people. He lived his life peacefully: his children respected him and his grandchildren loved him. There was very little for him to be ashamed of...oh he'd been young once too, but nothing more than a few harmless pranks which he recalled sometimes with a guilty chuckle. What mattered was intentions, he thought. As long as you try to be good...Vag was very tolerant of youth and high spirits: he understood human feelings and he believed in a merciful...
...phosphates. One possibility is a chemical called NTA which can replace a significant portion of the phosphates in a box of detergent. Even so, some experts agree that the only true solution is the construction of "tertiary" treatment sewage plants that would reduce phosphates from all sources to harmless...