Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underscore Nixon's concern over illicit international traffic in narcotics. Last week at his press conference, in answer to a plainly planted question, the President called for a "national offensive" to fight addiction among American youth-with special emphasis on veterans who return from Viet Nam hooked on heroin. The Administration is also drafting legislation that will assemble in one organization the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation elements of drug control...
...growing concern as drugs creep into Nixon's natural middle-class white constituency. Reston, Va., for example, the planned community once heralded as an American dream suburb, has a drug problem. Two weeks ago, a 14-year-old runaway from the community, Carolyn Ford, died from a heroin overdose. In the same week, a 17-year-old Santa Barbara, Calif., youth stabbed himself to death rather than surrender to narcotics officers; he was among 41 people being rounded up in raids following a four-month narcotics investigation...
...insidious spread of addiction. Early one morning last week a 16-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man were found dead on the steps of a Queens, N.Y., hospital, both from narcotics overdoses. Police discovered that the girl's older brother had died of a heroin overdose several weeks before, and that another brother had narrowly escaped a similar fate at the same time...
...many of those involved in the fight against heroin addiction, methadone seems to be the most workable weapon yet devised. A synthetic morphine substitute, it relieves the symptoms of narcotic withdrawal, blocks heroin's euphoric effects and allows an addict to lead a relatively normal life. But methadone also has its drawbacks. It is almost as addictive as the heroin it replaces, and most addicts must indefinitely maintain their new, though less destructive, habit. Because methadone is short-acting, it must be taken daily; addicts starting treatment must either report to a clinic for daily dosages or be given...
...A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...