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...after a long struggle with manic depression and bad luck. The City is an inferno with eerie similarities to the surface world that Reuben has just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...
...G.I.s in the rear areas, there was another enemy to fight: hard drugs. To find out why, I invited a "closet" addict from Army headquarters in Saigon to come over and talk. Blond, gangling and obviously underweight, my guest slouched into a chair, pulled a vial of heroin from his baggy fatigues, tapped some of the white powder into a cigarette paper and lit up. At college in Ohio he had majored in engineering, been on the debating team, the basketball team, and had been active in peace groups. Now he was "fighting" a war he could not believe...
...told me he had snorted two caps of heroin his first afternoon in the country-his first hard drugs ever-and had taken a hit every day since. He wanted to get off the habit, but somehow could not, despite his complaints of constipation, cramps and constant vomiting. Although he had been in Viet Nam only nine months and was in his early 20s, he seemed spent-almost middleaged...
...York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Lawrence Gartner, director of the division of neo-natality, has found that methadone babies are generally less healthy than heroin babies, and are born with a greater incidence of respiratory distress and jaundice. "Their symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical...
...drug-free community. Mothers work in group nurseries and learn about parenthood through weekly discussions. "I used to take a lot out on my daughter Jennifer," says Dianne Carleton, 21, of Fairfield, Conn. "I started taking 'speed' because I wanted to lose weight, and then went to heroin." Although Dianne, currently the only white adult at Mabon House, is now off drugs and better able to cope with herself and her child, there are many who are not so lucky. "Somehow the pregnant addict is harder to treat than the non-pregnant," explains Dr. Antonio Domantay, an Odyssey...