Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroin-blocking agents on addicted ex-convicts "will cure their desire for heroin within three months," a Harvard Medical School professor said yesterday...
Vernon Patch, associate professor of Psychiatry and head of the drug rehabilitation center at Boston City Hospital, said he plans to test the drug naltrexone hydrochloride on paroled addicts from Deer Island Prison. "It will help them protect themselves against heroin," he said...
...Inmates leave prison with drug hunger and seek drugs upon release, so they just return to their old lives. The blocking agents prevent them from getting a high on heroin," Patch said...
...Vernon D. Patch, director of the Boston City Drug Program and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Med School, said however that support for methadone treatment programs should continue because of "a growing density of heroin addicts in Boston...
...Even while barbituates, amphetamines and other drugs are coming to the fore, the whole approach to fighting drug dependency has been focused on heroin," he said...