Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trash. Paul Morrissey wrote and filmed this surprisingly short, well-edited and well-shot depression comedy for the Andy Warhol factory. Joe Dallesandro plays a heroin addict whose habit interferes with his sex life and Holly Woodlawn is his transvestite girl-next-door. For all its graphic sex and language, Trash maintains a point of view that is decidedly old-fashioned, morally speaking. As a result, this movie is a most original and affecting examination of the rapprochement of the Old America...
Methadone's advocates answer that whatever its drawbacks, it is far less dangerous than heroin. They reject the notion that dependency is undesirable. Dr. Barry Ramer, whose Center for Special Problems has just won a $121,000 grant from the city of San Francisco, equates methadone with insulin, which some diabetics take daily without suffering social opprobrium. Herman Lancaster of the state-sponsored Illinois Drug Abuse Program stresses that methadone enables the addict "to do what he could never do before." Dr. Robert DuPont, head of the Washington, D.C., Narcotics Treatment Administration, calls total and unassisted abstinence, which...
...facts seem to support DuPont's contention. Abstinence, even when combined with extensive rehabilitation programs, has met with only moderate success at best. But the majority of methadone users active in counseling programs have managed to stay off heroin. One California program has lost only four of its 54 participants since it got under way last year. Dole and Nyswander report that 82% of the first 700 enrolled in their program are still participating; 75% are either at school or working. Other programs have recorded similar results...
...significance of their success is social and economic as well as medical. Methadone addicts obtain their drug legally and hence inexpensively. They can work to support themselves. Because most heroin addicts are forced to steal to sustain their habit, they now cost the country about $ 1 billion a year...
...antidote to the uncertainties of their free-form life, some young people pursue mystical religions. Pot smoking is almost universal. I.V. has 50 to 100 heroin addicts; one night last summer, two youngsters sleeping on a nearby beach were hacked to death by unknown marauders. With an atmosphere reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both...