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...week after Comedian John Belushi's death last March, sensationalist headline followed sensationalist headline. Finally, it seemed, all the ugly details were out. The dissolute star had died from an injected overdose of heroin and cocaine-a "speedball."* Public interest wandered on to more seemly news. But now comes a squalid epilogue: Cathy Smith, 35, a sorry hanger-on who was apparently the last person to see Belushi alive, has claimed that she gave him numerous drug injections, including the fatal one. Smith, a Canadian, is in Toronto, and she has not been charged with any crime. Still...
Smith, who was arrested for heroin possession in 1981, has a history of seeking reflected fame. She is known as a Hollywood groupie who supplied drugs to the stars. Her confessions appeared in the sensation-mongering National Enquirer. The Enquirer, which reportedly offered to pay Smith for her story just after Belushi's death, is rumored to have promised her $15,000 for the recent interview, giving her some of the money now and the remainder later if she talks to no other reporter for two months...
...Heroin, a depressant, and cocaine, a stimulant, combine to produce a more potent euphoria than either drug taken alone...
...alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time in prison and hospitals than on bandstands. Miraculously, though, his style grew into a distinctive...
...case involved Albert Ross, who was arrested in Washington, B.C., after an informant tipped police that Ross was selling narcotics kept in his car's trunk. A search of the trunk turned up a small brown paper bag. Inside, the police found heroin-evidence instrumental in Ross's conviction. An appeals court reversed that conviction, and last July the Supreme Court arrived at the same conclusion in a similar case. The Justices had said then that police could not constitutionally undo the opaque plastic wrapped around two bricks of marijuana stashed in the trunk of a California...