Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps the most humiliating incident in the history of the nation's largest police department. First, New York City Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy announced that 57 lbs. of confiscated heroin was missing from the property-storage room. The next day it developed that an additional 24 Ibs. had disappeared. Estimated illicit retail value: $15 million or more. The cache constituted the bulk of the heroin seized in the 1962 case upon which the film The French Connection was based...
...Drug Administration should help. The new rules make it easier to crack down on private dispensers and require clinic dispensers to be registered after screening. The rules also require at least one urinalysis a week for every patient to make sure that he has not gone back to heroin and that he is swallowing rather than selling his prescribed dose...
...doctors or nurses. In practice, carelessness or corruption permits a few patients to hold the juice in their mouths until they can spit it into plastic bags and sell it as "mouthwash methadone." Some unethical doctors are selling the drug to nonaddicts or prescribing unneeded amounts to real heroin users; many addicts are getting extra supplies by enrolling at more than one treatment center. In clinics where vigilance is slack or rehabilitation services inadequate, take-home privileges may be too quickly granted and too often abused: given enough methadone to tide them over a weekend or longer, addicts may reduce...
Bearing out this contention is the fact that there is a growing black market for methadone. In many cities, it is being sold by pushers to "virgin" drug abusers seeking the orgasmic reaction, almost as intense as the heroin "rush," that methadone produces when injected into a vein rather than taken orally. Besides, though complicated to manufacture, methadone is cheaper than heroin (perhaps $20 instead of $50 a day) partly because big crime has not-as yet -moved...
Mouthwash. Worst of all, black-market methadone is said to have caused hundreds of deaths last year. Figures can be misleading; they often include deaths resulting from heroin or other causes when a trace of methadone is found in the victim's body. Nevertheless, the death totals are rising...