Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DRUGS. Anyone found guilty of trafficking in more than four ounces of a substance containing heroin or morphine and who had a previous drug-felony conviction would automatically receive life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The lowest penalty for a trafficker would be from five to 15 years for a first offense involving less than four ounces. Accused pushers would not be allowed bail unless they could prove that they were not a "danger" to the community. That proposal constitutes a substantial hardening of the Nixon-proposed general preventive-detention law, which so far has failed to work very well...
...effort to "avoid history and politics wherever possible," naturally mixes death with lukewarm eggs, bad Saigon traffic, disappointing bar girls, and the other irritations Willwerth keeps counting. But the book brings the war home with fine, straight reportage on the G.I.s, their Galley debates and fraggings, and a heroin network he stumbles upon. When the year is up, Willwerth leaves Viet Nam, wondering whether his journalism mattered...
...Heroin: 'A Crime...
...problem with methadone programs is that heroin addiction is considered a crime, rather than a disease, Dershowitz said. As a result, he added, addicts are reluctant to come forward and enter the programs...
...proposed rehabilitation program, doctors would determine an individual's physical level of addiction and administer the necessary dose of heroin at the clinic, Dershowitz said...