Word: heroines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quietly siphoning off the resources that might be better used for drug treatment or prevention. Numerous authorities have tried to warn us, including most recently the Surgeon General, but she got brushed off like a piece of lint. After all, drug prohibition is right up there with heroin and nicotine among the habits that are hell to kick...
...prohibition of cocaine and heroin may be more corrosive still. Here's where organized crime comes in, the cartels and kingpins and Crips and Bloods. These are the principal beneficiaries of drug prohibition; without it they'd be reduced to three-card monte and numbers scams. Legitimate entrepreneurs must sigh and shake their heads in envy: if only the government would ban some substance like Wheat Chex, for example, so it could be marketed for hundreds of dollars an ounce...
...survey also covers other aspects of student life. Questions range form "In general, how happy are you these days?" to "Have you ever taken any drugs like heroin cocaine, or anabolic steroids by injection with a needle...
More worrisome is the shortfall between those cocaine and heroin addicts who desperately need treatment and those who will actually get it. Depending on which Administration document one reads, the total number of needy addicts ranges between 1.1 million and 2.7 million people. Whatever the best guess, Clinton's new dollars will aid only 74,000 addicts. "It's inexplicable," says Mathea Falco, who ran the Carter Administration's interdiction efforts as the first Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. "Everyone in the field, and Clinton too, knows the supply-side efforts have largely failed. Clinton's effort...
...named Corey Shackleford. He said he loved her but had a nonnegotiable demand: she must get clean. Holland allows herself a small smile. "He'd led a sheltered life," she says. Nonetheless, that November, four months pregnant, she presented herself at D.C. General. "I told them I was a heroin and cocaine user, and sick and tired of getting high," she says. The hospital enrolled her in the maternal-health project...