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Word: heroines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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These statements, both by experts deeply concerned about epidemic drug abuse, typify the growing controversy over methadone as a substitute for heroin. Last week, in a book that may help to resolve the controversy, Consumers Union came out strongly on the Dole side of the argument. Licit and Illicit Drugs, a five-year study by Medical Writer Edward Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Little, Brown; $12.50), advocates legalizing marijuana, supplying heroin, opium and morphine to some addicts on an experimental basis, and providing methadone maintenance-legal administration of methadone to heroin users-for every drug abuser who asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Glimmer of Light? | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen "keepers" who seem to be a cross between Mafia godfathers and Soviet commissars. Hoss has his entourage: a doctor (John Scanlan) who gives him heroin for lifts, and a girl (Gloria Maddox) who exists merely to verify that Hoss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cutting Session | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Dumont said that junkies are not violent and that there is "no correlation between heroin addicts and crimes of violence such as rapes, murders, armed assault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Calls Mental Hospitals 'Warehouses of Human Refuse' | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

Dumont said that "heroin is a benign drug, it's much safer than penicillin. In terms of death, heroin is not as lethal as suicidal tendencies or alcoholism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Calls Mental Hospitals 'Warehouses of Human Refuse' | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

...blamed the President for fostering misconceptions about heroin addiction and said that "placing responsibility for crimes in the street onto the backs of heroin addicts is a gigantic mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Calls Mental Hospitals 'Warehouses of Human Refuse' | 11/16/1972 | See Source »

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