Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conclude the authors, "would be a cure for opiate addiction. But no such cure exists, nor is there one on the horizon-and there exist no clues as to where such a miracle cure might be found. Methadone maintenance is not a panacea. But it frees addicts from the heroin incubus" and can turn "a majority of heroin addicts into law-abiding citizens...
...preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
Transformed Lives. Methadone prevents withdrawal symptoms when the addict stops using heroin. Swallowed in individually regulated doses, it keeps him on an even keel without producing either euphoria or lassitude. It also helps suppress his craving for drugs-and keeps the addict from getting high on heroin if he tries going back to it. Most important, stabilizing an addict on methadone often brings his previously buried emotional problems to the surface where they can be treated...
...when they have stayed on it six months or longer. Thousands of addicts rehabilitated with methadone abandon crime as a way of life. The view of addicts who have managed to resume a near-normal existence is summed up by Pam Smith, 46, a Manhattanite who once supported her heroin habit with prostitution: "I'm a human being again...
...discussed article in Science last spring, they argued that methadone maintenance "reinforces the popular illusion that a drug can be a fast, cheap and magical answer to complex human and social problems." Because methadone is addictive, opponents also find maintenance morally abhorrent and believe that moving an addict from heroin to methadone is like shifting an alcoholic from bourbon to Scotch...