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...long been believed that experimentation with heroin is an irrevocable act that leads eventually to addiction and the criminal acts necessary to support the expensive habit. Thus it has also been assumed that the tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen who used the drug in Viet Nam have returned home as addicts, increasing the proportions of what was already a national heroin epidemic. But last week the Defense Department released a study that seemed to undermine these assumptions...
...There was no pattern to the chippers' use of heroin," he said. "It was largely a function of chance rather than planning...
Powell said that the significance of this finding is that it seems that heroin use by chippers depends on the availability of the drug and therefore "the less heroin there is around, the less people will...
Powell said yesterday that he felt the most interested observation was that OHU's use of heroin was "episodic" and did not stem from an inner need...
Powell's study points to the ready availability of heroin as a reason for the increased use of the drug among adolescents in recent years. Heroin can be easily obtained in both poor and affluent neighborhoods in the Northeast, Powell said...