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...Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search for new veins to pop. The only limit on the amount of crack an addict can use is the amount he has. "There is no such thing as saving crack," says Dr. Herbert Kleber of Yale Medical School. "You use what you have...
Cocaine, many physicians now believe, is the most addictive popular drug of all, and crack is by far its most addictive form. "People fall desperately in love with this drug the first time they use it," says Dr. Arnold Washton, director of research for the National Cocaine Hotline. Unlike heroin users, who vomit and shake when they withdraw, crack addicts show few immediate physical signs of dependency -- at least at first. But they feel an overpowering yearning for more. Bouts of depression and irritability can lead to deep depression and paranoia. "I was afraid to be with it and afraid...
...faculties are raised to the highest point compatible with individual capacity." Doctors began prescribing opium- based concoctions for every malady from headache to skin rash. Respectable Victorian ladies calmed their babies with narcotic potions, such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Hooper's Anodyne, the Infant's Friend. Heroin, a morphine derivative, was sold legally at the turn of the century in drugstores and by mail-order catalogs and traveling salesmen...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran drove the Asian-crescent drug trade through Pakistan, the number of heroin addicts there went from virtually nil in 1980 to some 650,000 abusers today. (The U.S.S.R. is not unscathed by the global epidemic; Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan are said to trade their weapons for opium and hashish...