Word: heroines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...promising as this research has been, Government agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial...
...brain is rich in enkephalin receptors, scientists speculate that the molecules may act as a defense against disappointments and trauma. At the Salk Institute, Floyd Bloom is studying the possibility that endorphins may be involved in the pleasure received from alcohol and opiates. Once a person begins taking heroin, say, the natural production of endorphins may decrease. Thus, if addicts try to go cold turkey, the agony of withdrawal is severe. If scientists can create nonaddictive chemicals that bind, like the opiates-and work at Yale with clonidine suggests that they can-to the appropriate receptors, they may be able...
...large name card pinned to his chest. The presiding judge agreed, saying, "You don't need an identification tag." The judge then read a 17-point indictment; each of the charges carried the death penalty. They ranged from general corruption to spying for the West and smuggling heroin from France...
...people will just naturally want to get high," Michael Moriarty writes his wife (Tuesday Weld) back home in a Berkely bookstore. Moriarty is a war correspondent in Vietnam; what he's seen there disgusts him, and he just wants to get out with the big score--two kilos of heroin. His carrier is Nolte, a Nietzsche-reading, Zen master he knew in the Marines. But Moriarty has no idea just how much entrepeneurial capitalism is frowned upon by corporate America--just who do you cross, running smack from the Golden Triangle? The CIA? The Mob? While Moriarty ponders that, with...
DIED. John Simon Ritchie, 21, English punk-rock musician better known as Sid Vicious of the notorious, now disbanded Sex Pistols group; of a heroin overdose, one day after being released on bail from prison, where he was awaiting trial for the October murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, 20; in Manhattan...