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...Smith points to an 85% recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones, a psychiatrist who heads the methadone program at nearby Brea Hospital says: "My own program is a failure. I came here because they're taking kids off heroin cold turkey. What's more, they stay...
...been nasty, brutish and sometimes short. Says Juan Antonio Antolin, 31, who became director of Santa Marta seven months ago: "This was a pesthole beyond belief. It was run by drug traffickers, not the guards." Antolin claims a Mexican drug peddler offered him $10,000 a week to allow heroin to be smuggled into Santa Marta; when he refused, an attempt was made to kill...
...friends claimed he was just a wealthy real estate investor who was harassed by overzealous, even jealous white authorities. Police contended he was the biggest heroin dealer in New York City, maybe in the country. To blacks in his old Harlem neighborhood, Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 45, was a legend of defiance and success. What he had he flaunted, and he had a great deal: 300 custom-tailored suits, a string of glamourous women and powerful friends in show business and politics. He drove two Citroën-Maseratis and four Mercedes. Ghetto kids, said a black police detective, "think...
Last March, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested Barnes. A federal grand jury had indicted him and five of his top "lieutenants" for conspiring to distribute 44 Ibs. of heroin (estimated wholesale price: $1 million) once a month, starting in November 1976, from Barnes' Harlem garage. New York cops, however, grumbled that the feds had rushed in too soon. Having painstakingly tailed and eavesdropped on Barnes for more than ten years, local narcs figured they were building a better case against...
...George P. Canellos '56, chief of medicine at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said medical uses of heroin and marijuana derivatives "should be looked...