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...will be through hysterical efforts to control street crime. A general feeling among whites, he reports, is that "We've done enough for the bastards." A widespread belief among Detroit blacks, he learns, is that whites flooded the city's black slums with "skag"-cheap, low-grade heroin-as a deliberate pacification measure, cheaper and easier than giving machine guns to the police...
...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...
...Hollywood hotel bungalow, the "coroner to the stars" was uncharacteristically circumspect. He remained silent as the first ugly details of Belushi's .death drifted into print, and finally issued only a terse written announcement of his findings: "The deceased died of an overdose due to intravenous injections of heroin and cocaine. Both cocaine and heroin were found on the premises...
...battle to remove him intensified, Noguchi relapsed into his customary loquaciousness with the press. He said that given free rein, he would have hinted days earlier at the unnatural causes of Belushi's death. Noguchi referred to the use of the cocaine-heroin mixture by its street name-speedballing-and said that the dose would have killed Belushi even if he had been less paunchy and dissipated. The comedian's death had its public aftermath in the East as well. Actor Dan Aykroyd led the funeral cortege on Martha's Vineyard astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle...
While every track is vintage Reed, two in particular stand out. One could spend hours trying to figure out "The Heroine," a bare, haunting song that features only a guitar and Reed's voice. At first, it seems a tale of adventure on the high seas that sports one hitch: the hero is a woman. But the cut takes on added significance when one remembers the Velvet Underground sang "Heroin," a violently direct song about drugs. All at once, the drug imagery emerges...