Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ostensibly funding a New Jersey-based heroin addict rehabilitation program, "four to six" individuals in their early twenties approached an unknown number of freshmen with offers of cut-rate periodical subscriptions, Kenney said...
...said he was an ex-heroin addict--on heroin for eight years--and that if he got 20,000 points selling magazines he would get a $5000 scholarship to go to the University of Pennsylvania," Davis said...
...used narcotics in Viet Nam stopped as soon as they left; of those who continue to use drugs after their return, most insist that they are not addicted. Says Dr. Robins, who seems too casual about the use of a dangerously addictive drug: "Some of our data suggest heroin can be used as a plaything. Some people use it just a little...
...apparent discrepancy between Dr. Robins' conclusion and the experience of drug experts in ghettos may be partially explained by another of her findings: of the heroin users in Viet Nam, only 8% injected the drug. The others smoked or sniffed it. But drug usage among returned veterans could still be a bigger problem than the report indicates. Even Dr. Robins admits that "it may be too soon to be completely confident that the risk of serious addiction is as small as it now appears...
...them, only three have been returned to prison. One Viet Nam veteran who faced a year for selling amphetamines got out after two months and claims, "There is no chance I'll ever be in trou ble again." A 19-year-old sentenced to ten years for selling heroin was surprised by "how good they all were to me - the judge, the public defender, every one." Says his mother: "We thought we had lost him completely...