Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listen to John Cale's viola careen into its nauseating twisted frenzy at the end of the old Velvet Underground song "Heroin," it may be somewhat hard to believe that Cale is still alive. More than any other American rock group, the Velvet Underground seemed to be toying with the kind of violent apocalyptic energy which could ultimately consume itself. In fact, Cale survived the Velvet Underground, and has now produced, by himself, one of the few important albums of this dismal year of rock and roll. And perhaps Cale's survival qualifies him to say something about...
...suspect, a heroin addict on probation who was undergoing withdrawal, apparently misunderstood. He promised that if the police did not arrest him, he would give them information about recent thefts...
...three of the comics deal with the problems of drug use, but Bogeyman, more than the others, focuses on the end points of speed and heroin addiction. In its "Hall of Infamy," a monthly feature on California's most strung-out freaks, the inaugural member is "Scorpion," who has just hacked his way out of the head of his alternate identity, Huey Lincoln Smith (1942-1969). He is pictured standing inside a ruptured skull, still holding the axe. The split-head image recurs in a story called "Last Hit." A girl shoots up and frazzles her mind until woolly monsters...
...tragically thought drugs were something they could gamble with and win; most recently there was the death of the king of rock erotica, Jimi Hendrix. In the fall of 1969, she was taking a six-month vacation "to clear my head." By last February she claimed to have kicked heroin. "I don't touch drugs," she told an interviewer at the time. "These kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have a drink of Southern Comfort...
...Angeles physicians expressed concern over the belief, held by a growing number of drug addicts, that milk is capable of neutralizing the effects of heroin. Apparently believing that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before...