Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other part to be sold. In one instance a patrolman arrested a pusher on the street, while a detective seized the opportunity to burglarize the pusher's home. In another case two cops supplied heroin to an addict until her horrified boy friend went to the commissioner's office. One of the cops pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail; the other was merely dismissed from the force...
...authorities arrive at heroin addiction figures? They count known habitual users, of course, such as those who are arrested and those who sign up for treatment programs. But such figures account for only a fraction of the addict population. To arrive at an overall estimate, officials in many cities project from the number of overdose deaths, one commonly used criterion being 200 addicts for each fatality. A new study in Washington, D.C., indicates that because some overdose deaths have gone undetected, the number of active users may be even higher than previously estimated...
...Robert DuPont of Washington's Narcotics Treatment Administration reports this new math of addiction in a New England Journal of Medicine article. Like most major U.S. cities, Washington is experiencing an alarming heroin epidemic. The number of narcotic arrests in the city rose by 462% between 1967 and 1970; drug-related crimes, such as robbery, theft and prostitution, also increased dramatically. In 1967 a total of 21 Washingtonians were known to have succumbed to heroin overdoses, and using the ratio of 200 addicts per overdose, officials estimated the city's addict population then at 4,200. The figure...
...drug problem was first driven home to the American public by former Army Secretary Stanley Resor and Connecticut Congressman Robert H. Steele, who reported that between 10% and 15% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam -or 26,000 to 39,000 men-had developed a heroin habit. Few quarreled with that estimate, and some placed the number even higher...
...crimes or turned themselves in for treatment during the first six months of this year. Nor do they register those casual users strong enough to kick their habits temporarily and pass the urinalysis test. Jarre himself admits his figures represent only "men who had become dependent on opiates, including heroin." He said that surveys taken in April and May of men below the rank of. buck sergeant showed that about 10% or 11% had used heroin once. But at least the addiction rate, though still insupportable, does not seem as steep as was feared...