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...riot. They just quit the Army at the end of their tours. When the plum job of command sergeant major opened at scenic, historic Heidelberg, the first three men chosen left the military rather than take the assignment. Those who stay often turn to alcohol and drugs, including heroin. Brigadier General John S. Crosby, who until March was commanding general of the Hanau complex, says: "Inadequate maintenance inevitably produces poor morale. Drug and alcohol abuse are inevitable byproducts...
...State Department, meanwhile, would become more involved in trying to cut off drugs at their source: the opium, coca and marijuana fields around the world. In 1972 Turkey was persuaded to control its opium exports, and is no longer a prime provider of heroin. The U.S. has virtually no diplomatic leverage in Iran and Iraq, which have picked up where Turkey left off. But Peru, a major supplier of the coca used in cocaine, would be open to U.S. suasion. So would Colombia and other Latin American countries that became major marijuana producers after the U.S. subsidized Mexico to destroy...
Thus, in parts of the U.S. where heroin has become difficult to get or too expensive, a cheap-and dangerous-substitute has taken its place. Known as Ts and Blues, it is a mixture of Talwin, a morphine-like painkiller sold only by prescription, and Pyribenzamine, a blue antihistamine tablet available over the counter. They are stolen and sold to junkies for about $10 a pair, one-quarter the price of a hit of heroin. Mixed, dissolved and injected, they give a heroin-like rush-and quickly produce a heroin-like dependency. Says a drug addict in New Orleans...
...last year, hospitals reported 3,669 cases related to Ts and Blues, compared with 12,785 for heroin. But in some cities-particularly New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Albany and St. Louis - the new "rig" is more prevalent than heroin. Says Lieut. Lawrence Forberg of the Chicago narcotics squad: "I predict it will possibly equal heroin usage." Since first appearing in Chicago during the mid-'70s, Ts and Blues have spread with frightening speed. John Mudri, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Detroit, began noticing the combination a little over a year ago in early 1980. Says...
...officials hope the drug can be controlled by limiting the manufacture of Talwin. A pessimistic view comes from St. Louis Police Narcotics Chief Charles McCrary. Says he: "I'm afraid that when high-grade white heroin, which is beginning to reach the East Coast cities from Southwest Asia, starts coming in, the junkies will go back to that...