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drug and law enforcement officials also fear that Turkey's decision last week to resume planting opium poppies after a two-year prohibition will soon cause another deadly byproduct, "Turkish white" heroin, to appear back on the streets of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Opium's Lethal Return | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...Administration crusade against the worldwide drug trade. Before Turkey originally agreed to halt its planting in return for a threeyear, $35 million aid program from the U.S., its annual crops followed a trail that led through the processing labs of Marseille ("the French connection") to the U.S. Turkish-grown heroin accounted for fully 80% of the total U.S. supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Opium's Lethal Return | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Physically and spiritually depleted, he retired at 26-a heroin addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Slowhand | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...where the wondrous Celts play during the winter) is the big deal on the local music scene this week. Clapton is, or was at one time, as you probably know, God. It's hard to say what he is now--he's just coming off a long bout with heroin and is as a result in a getting-myself-back-together stage. But indications all suggest he's still great; his new single, "I Shot the Sheriff," is teriffic and his history is epic. Clapton is a giant figure in rock. The problem is that the concert will probably sell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/12/1974 | See Source »

...cases, he made his own radical conclusions and offered some radical remedies: a patient suffering beyond endurance should be given the choice to end it. If the patient refuses that option, he should be allowed as much pain-killing drug as he wants, and that drug probably should be heroin, which is estimated to be four times as effective a painkiller as any alternative drug. "If a human being must die, it is surely better that he die in the illusion of painless pleasure-and heroin is very pleasurable-than in lonely agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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