Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Addicts also account for much of the $2 billion worth of tools, office machinery and other goods stolen from corporations and stores each year. In New York City, which conservatively counts 50,000 heroin addicts, about 80% of the shoplifting is attributed to drug users, including some employed at the stores. Drug abuse is particularly apparent in the stockrooms of major department stores, says Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, director of New York City's Phoenix House drug rehabilitation program...
Hardened drug users in business are generally in their early 20s and usually in low-echelon jobs. The ghetto black is still the heaviest heroin user but as his need for the drug grows, he usually drops out of the labor force. The number of white workers dependent on heroin is increasing, but the whites still tend to less addictive drugs, notably barbiturates and amphetamine capsules. Most users in industry turn on with marijuana, or pot; if nothing else, it can diminish their ability...
...heroin incidents do not involve Harvard users, but they indicate that Harvard buildings have been used as drop-off sites for heroin and open the possibility that Harvard students are selling heroin to local high school students...
According to Chief Touis, the man had packets of heroin taped to his body and a syringe in his pocket. Two knives were concealed in his socks. Packets of heroin were also found taped to walls in the lavatory...
Earlier this month an Adams House janitor found two local high school students shooting heroin in an Adams House entryway and turned them over to Harvard police. Initial rumors that the students had gotten the drugs from Harvard undergraduates were denied yesterday by Dean...