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...little medical lore along the way. Take the final episode of E.R., for example, in which George Clooney, in his role as Dr. Doug Ross, faced censure for his unauthorized use of a procedure called ultrarapid opiate detoxification on a tiny patient--an infant born to a heroin-addicted mother. After a harrowing all-night vigil, during which the infant hovered near death, the detoxification was a success and the baby drug-free. Grateful and overjoyed, the mother pleaded with Doug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is E.R.'s Rx? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...kids, and they hate the world." A young Nazi makes an unpersuasive victim, but still...one member of the Sharps--an interesting hybrid, skinheads devoted to racial tolerance--had a meth-addict mother and a pothead father, an alcoholic stepfather and a favorite aunt who died of a heroin overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hanging on the Edge | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...With the Golden Arm (1955) Sinatra was proud of this one, in which he plays heroin addict Frankie Machine, because it was one of Hollywood's first looks at drug addiction. Now a bit dated, it still has harrowing moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Sinatra to Eternity | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

Brother Bill is standing with the gang members on their usual gathering spot outside a building in Cabrini-Green, the place where drug users looking for marijuana, crack cocaine or heroin can always find it. The air is frigid but charged with the warm sound of horseplay and laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

When he was nine, ERIC CLAPTON discovered the woman he thought was his older sister was really his mother. Now that he's 53, other members of his family have popped up. The Canadian papers have unearthed TED RICH, once an up-and-coming Vancouver guitarist, now a heroin addict living in a flophouse. He and Clapton were both fathered by Edward Fryer, a Canadian soldier who met Clapton's mother in Britain during the war. Rich also has a sister, living in Florida. Rich says he would like to meet his half brother, but not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 20, 1998 | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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