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...former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo...
...While heroin usage still remains concentrated in the nation's ghettos, officials are seeing evidence of a new breed of "upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most...
...Reagan administration, governed by the long-term misconception that drug addiction is a moral failure and not a physiological phenomenon rooted in serious social inequities, is treating drug problems as a low priority item. There are an estimated 12,000 heroin addicts living in Massachusetts, and the number of emergency room heroin-related cases in the state's hospitals is up by 4 or 5 percent. Rehabilitaion officials are finding the Reagan budget curs crippling to an already chronically underfunded social service. The combined effects of the recently passed federal block grants, Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, and budget cuts...
What has not suffered from Reaganomics is the low-cost, low-effectiveness methadone treatment centers. Seven out-patient facilities in the state dispense the synthetic, which is designed to remove gradually the user's need for heroin. "We have had a good success rate with methadone," drug officials say. Most often measured in terms of a facility's utilization rate, success comes easily for a methodone treatment program. A methodone center tends to create its own demand. "If we were a methadone service," Bill McCue, director of project Third Nail, says, "we'd have lines of people down the block...
...mixing it with other drugs. When I was on methadone, because it was such a downer, I would get my treatment dose, start to nod, them mix it with a little coke so I could keep tuned in. The withdrawal from methadone is far more severe than from heroin, and it takes months to get it out of your body system." The treatment, partly because of the small amount of time that a therapist has to spend with each client, remains very inexpensive, which accounts for Washington's support of the program. Funds have been collected to accommodate 100 more...