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...California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana, PCP or hallucinogens...
...antidrug crusades, it regularly succumbs to new waves of forbidden indulgences. In the late 19th century, Americans swigged the true Classic Coke, Coca-Cola bottled with a dash of cocaine. A panicked nation banished cocaine to the shadows back then, but over the years new drugs -- from pot to heroin to LSD -- always seemed to come along, promising momentary escape and delivering long-term misery and waste...
...crisis. Statistics to be released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse this month will show rather surprisingly that the current cocaine epidemic has already peaked, and the use of other drugs is declining significantly. Drugs kill, but not nearly so often as the family car. Coke and heroin cause much less overall harm, in statistical terms, than alcohol or tobacco...
...diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth, it's obvious that drug use is going to decline." Marijuana has been widely feared as the "gateway drug" that leads teenagers from smoking joints to experimenting with stronger stuff, such as cocaine and heroin. In 1978, according to government surveys, a staggering 10% of all high school seniors smoked marijuana every day. Today the percentage has dropped by half. That is still way too high, but attitudes have changed markedly. Only one-quarter of high school seniors reported that marijuana was a dangerous drug...
...Heroin abuse has stabilized at half a million users, about the same number as 15 years ago. That is still a tragically high number, but the heroin-addict population is aging. The NIDA reports there are relatively few new heroin users...