Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long been believed that experimentation with heroin is an irrevocable act that leads eventually to addiction and the criminal acts necessary to support the expensive habit. Thus it has also been assumed that the tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen who used the drug in Viet Nam have returned home as addicts, increasing the proportions of what was already a national heroin epidemic. But last week the Defense Department released a study that seemed to undermine these assumptions...
...study asserts that narcotics dependence among returned veterans is no higher than it is among those who did not serve. In a finding that is bound to raise eyebrows among drug experts, the report also implies that heroin addiction, far from being incurable, is a habit that many people simply outgrow...
Last May Dr. Robins obtained a list of the 13,240 G.I.s who had returned to the U.S. in September 1971 during the height of the heroin crisis in Viet Nam. She selected a random sample of 470 names and added another 495 names from a list of soldiers found in tests to have used drugs. Her assistants then conducted more than 900 interviews and obtained urine samples for evidence of drug usage. Their findings were such welcome news to the Pentagon that it embraced the study after learning the preliminary results. Of all the returnees interviewed, only 1.3% were...
Powell said that the significance of this finding is that it seems that heroin use by chippers depends on the availability of the drug and therefore "the less heroin there is around, the less people will...
Powell's study points to the ready availability of heroin as a reason for the increased use of the drug among adolescents in recent years. Heroin can be easily obtained in both poor and affluent neighborhoods in the Northeast, Powell said...