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...edge of South Boston, just over the channel from South Station. Though many bands that would play there go to the Cape in the summer, The Channel still offers some big name bands close-up. Popular reggae band Steel Pulse plays there Tuesday, New York poet-punk-heroin addict Jim Carroll on Thursday, Ministry on June 30, poppy ska band Bad Manners July 14, and the inevitable milking of the success of rock parody. This is Spinal Tap. The band will-play. The Channel July 7, and watching the audience may be more interesting than watching the show. One fears...
Perhaps most disturbing to many pain researchers is the prospect of large amounts of federal money going toward the preparation of heroin for medicinal use. "If the money and heat generated on the heroin bill were spent on developing new drugs and educating doctors on how to use the drugs we al ready have, patients would be a lot better off," insists Dr. Michael Levy, director of palliative care at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. This view is shared by Dame Cicely Saunders, the English founder of the hospice movement, which popularized the use of heroin in Britain...
Despite these arguments, some members of the medical community believe that heroin deserves the four-year trial proposed in the bill even if it helps only a handful of people...
...self-immolation as the fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine and heroin that had swollen his brain and bloated his heart but of all these bad dreams...
...book even bypasses the one potentially intriguing question about Belushi's death: Why did the Los Angeles police release Cathy Smith, who was subsequently indicted for murder and for "furnishing and administering" speedballs (potent mixtures of cocaine and heroin) during the final days of Belushi's life? Portrayed by Woodward as a user and sometime dealer of heroin, Smith was able to hotfoot it to Canada, where she is still fighting extradition. Woodward is so absorbed in writing about Belushi's demons that he has barely a moment to suggest where they might have originated. Evoking...