Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once parents discover that their child is using heroin, inevitably they blame themselves; in such tragedies, families can spend a lifetime unraveling the twisting threads of guilt without ever resolving where it lies. More immediately, however, it is important that parents learn how to recognize the symptoms of addiction (see box above). If they do not, or if they refuse to accept the harsh evidence, the chance of saving their child from an early death or a ruined life can be irretrievably lost. One well-to-do Washington, D.C., father, whose 16-year-old started on heroin...
...Heroin's New Image...
...have children and heroin come together now in this deadly combination? According to Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, who has treated young addicts in San Francisco and writes a popular "Dr. HIPpocrates" column in the Berkeley Barb, explains: "There is a growing use of heroin among young people because young people tend to value the respect of their peers above everything else. Taking the most dangerous drug you can find is -a way of gaining that respect. It's a kind of machismo thing...
...Donald Louria: "We are seeing an era of multiple use of any and every kind of drug. And it is moving so fast that it is different this year from last year." The traditional barriers between much of society and the users of such hard drugs as heroin, cocaine and morphine are collapsing. "Heroin has become respectable," says Mrs. Harriet Benjamin, a worker at Synanon in Santa Monica, Calif. "The image of the dirty old man in the schoolyard is dead." Ten years ago, middle-class high school kids looked down on heroin users; now it has shed the fear...
Rooting out illegal dealing in heroin poses vastly complex problems. The heroin market is enormously profitable, and drying up the sources of supply involves an incredible tangle of such fractious forces as foreign governments and the U.S.'s own Cosa Nostra...