Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was no pattern to the chippers' use of heroin," he said. "It was largely a function of chance rather than planning...
...study, financed by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Drug Abuse Council, recruited 12 OHUs from the Boston-Cambridge area who had no history of addiction, but who had been taking heroin intermittently for at least three years...
Douglas H. Powell, chief of Psychology at the University Health Services, authored a pilot study of occasional heroin users (OHUs) and found that "it seems possible for a number of youths from different backgrounds, family patterns and educational abilities to use heroin occasionally without becoming addicted...
...Though heroin attracted the OHUs for several different reasons, two critical factors prevented them from becoming addicts. The OHU's friends and environments were straight, and the OHUs shared the tendency to watch their heroin use very carefully, stopping heroin use when they felt they were getting "hooked...
Powell said yesterday that he felt the most interested observation was that OHU's use of heroin was "episodic" and did not stem from an inner need...