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...study, financed by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Drug Abuse Council, recruited 12 OHUs from the Boston-Cambridge area who had no history of addiction, but who had been taking heroin intermittently for at least three years...
...study undertaken by a Harvard psychologist indicates that many people may intermittently take heroin without becoming addicted...
Douglas H. Powell, chief of Psychology at the University Health Services, authored a pilot study of occasional heroin users (OHUs) and found that "it seems possible for a number of youths from different backgrounds, family patterns and educational abilities to use heroin occasionally without becoming addicted...
...Though heroin attracted the OHUs for several different reasons, two critical factors prevented them from becoming addicts. The OHU's friends and environments were straight, and the OHUs shared the tendency to watch their heroin use very carefully, stopping heroin use when they felt they were getting "hooked...
...snow, freeze, flake, lady). The habit was in vogue decades ago, then fell out of style except among pop musicians, some other show-business types and the more prosperous prostitutes and procurers. Yet a recent Government study concluded that the use of coke is now more widespread than of heroin. The same survey estimated that 4.8 million Americans have sampled the drug...