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...fixture on the seedy North Beach scene in the past few years, the pair-especially Eben-according to Grim developed another expensive taste: hard drugs. Eben is chronically depressed and often disturbed, and is a serious user of heroin. Grim says that Amy was an occasional user of cocaine. He further maintains that in the weeks before her death both Eben and his sister were being shaken down by the same drug dealer; Amy, he says, may have owed the dealer as much as $5,000, Eben as much as $2,500. The dealer, he implies, threatened the pair...
...Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...
Those who sniffed became ill, and nine hours later the band's drummer, Robbie Mclntosh, 24, was dead of a heroin overdose. Cher, who didn't take a snort, is credited with saving Bassist Alan Gorrie's life by walking him around all night, preventing him from lapsing into a coma. Last week it was revealed that a Los Angeles County grand jury had charged Moss, whose last address was British Honduras, with murder. Ironically, Robbie's last single with the band, Pick Up the Pieces, is currently heading for the top of the charts...
...Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores loved John Kennedy and hated Johnson, hate Nixon. Once they alienated all their neighbors when they had a black friend of one of the kids stay at the house for a couple of weeks. He was trying to kick heroin at the time, and wearing an afro before the style was too big in the area...
...financial and human cost of the heroin plague is horrendous. In fiscal 1973, according to Bartels' estimate, heroin addicts required $5.6 billion to support their habit. More than half of that, authorities believe, comes from crime. If DuPont is correct when he says that "we can no longer talk about turning the corner on heroin anywhere," crime is likely to increase...