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...steered a law through the state legislature requiring life sentences without parole for convicted heroin pushers. That hasn't forced them out of business, though; it has merely made their heroin more expensive, which means addicts must now rob more apartments, and mug more old women, to get enough money...
Hard Drugs. At first the Bollinger gang rounded up gamblers and other troublemakers, but then it started its own reign of terror. Some gang members began to smoke pot, and later took to hard drugs, including heroin. Dr. John Riley, the village's only physician, was bullied into supplying them with drugs and forced to give them methadone when the heroin ran low. So persistent were the demands that Riley, 47, was driven to a nervous breakdown. He died of a heart attack this July...
...plays. Only Oona survived O'Neill's catastrophic fatherliness, which seemed to consist of a month of misleading warmth and charm followed by years of neglect, or hostility. After a brilliant start as a Greek scholar at Yale, Eugene Jr. killed himself. Shane turned to heroin, Oona turned to Charlie Chaplin, and both were eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven, and much of his work has not worn well-the prostitutes...
Vernon Patch, associate professor of Psychiatry and head of the drug rehabilitation center at Boston City Hospital, said he plans to test the drug naltrexone hydrochloride on paroled addicts from Deer Island Prison. "It will help them protect themselves against heroin," he said...
...Inmates leave prison with drug hunger and seek drugs upon release, so they just return to their old lives. The blocking agents prevent them from getting a high on heroin," Patch said...