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...painkillers. They also overestimated the risks of narcotics, worrying excessively about the possibility of respiratory problems and addiction. "We've become a nation obsessed with drug addiction," says Bonica, "and this has led to a serious problem with underdosing." Congress is considering legislation to legalize the use of heroin to ease suffering by terminal-cancer patients...
Please do whatever you can to get heroin legalized for easing pain. As a nurse, I hear so many brave but torture-ridden people cry for relief from pain. So many patients just don't respond to morphine. Why must they scream and beg for relief...
...Detroit's west side, the Lula Belle Stewart Center last year gave practical help and counseling to more than 700 teen-age mothers and fathers, nearly all black. One of the center's typical clients is Donna, 15. Her parents are heroin addicts, and her month-old-child's father has been charged with burglary. But her future is not absolutely hopeless: the center has taught her the rudiments of infant care, found her a doctor and persuaded her to return to school...
...Massachusetts General Hospital with bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the lining of the heart. It is sometimes caused by using dirty needles to inject drugs. After that, according to Collier and Horowitz, a psychiatrist agreed to prescribe the painkiller Percodan in order to keep him away from heroin. David took up other drugs as well-cocaine and Dilaudid. Bobby was arrested in South Dakota last year for possession of heroin, and entered a drug-treatment program...
...Democracy is a flawed novel-sometimes portentous, sometimes over-directed by the author-it is also very fast and shrewd, one of the funniest books of the year. Much of the time, Didion seems to be laughing at her own romantic yearnings. Her heroine resembles a paper cutout Jackie Kennedy. Inez Christian Victor is the daughter of a rich, mercantile Hawaiian clan and the wife of a dashing Democratic Senator who wants to be President. In her daily life, Inez must contend with a randy husband, his groupies ("Girls like that come with the life") and standard-issue disaffected children...