Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago, TIME ran a cover story on "Drugs and the Young," which analyzed the new and disturbing pot culture among the youth of today. This week, the cover deals once again with drugs and the young, but now the subject is the rapid rise of heroin use-infinitely more powerful than marijuana, appallingly addictive, horrifyingly lethal. It is not a story that any one correspondent or bureau could provide in the detail that TIME demands. The reports to Writer Keith Johnson, Editor Jason McManus and Researcher Mary Kelley were the work of 16 correspondents and stringers throughout...
...about their experiences with "smack," "horse," or "the big H"-and persuading parents to tell their side of a horror they hardly begin to comprehend. In San Francisco, Reporter Chris Andersen found the problem frighteningly close to home when a good friend was able to summon "a talkative, nonrepentant heroin addict." For Chicago's Sam Iker, it became "a crash education -perhaps too much to take in one massive dose...
...early 1950s when he was with the Chicago Tribune and during his years on LIFE. Since coming to TIME he has specialized in stories about the mob, gambling, crime in general. Sandy drew on his sources in Washington and New York in tracing the role of organized crime in heroin traffic. Says Smith: "The pusher-especially to kids-is lousy, but even he isn't as low as the gangster who finances it. Organized crime is the absolute lowest level of society. With drugs they're making everyone as scummy as themselves...
Doctor: Are you going to shoot more heroin...
...Dana Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, testified before a House subcommittee Friday in opposition to legislation that would give the Justice Department control over research involving marijuana, heroin, and other psychotropic drugs...