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Grim Paradox. Until recently, heroin was considered the major villain. As more and more young female addicts have been enrolled in methadone maintenance programs, however, doctors have discovered a grim paradox: methadone is preferable for the adolescent or adult for a number of reasons-in eluding the fact that it does not normally produce the euphoria of heroin-but for the infant it seems to be even more dangerous than heroin...
Methadone, which easily crosses the placental barrier, may impede the fetus's normal development. More than 50% of all children born of methadone mothers are either premature or small for their gestational age. The same is true of the heroin baby, but most mothers on heroin receive minimal prenatal care and often have poor eating habits. By contrast, the methadone mother in a registered maintenance program is usually referred to a doctor for prenatal care. Although physicians cannot yet prove it, some suspect that the underdevelopment and prematurity of the methadone baby is a direct result of the drug...
...says, will no longer tolerate the draft. He also plans to study racism and drugs. With the Army providing "a captive research population," Segal hopes to make discoveries that will benefit the whole nation: "The boundary between civilian and military society is permeable. The soldier who begins using heroin today will be a civilian addict tomorrow...
...unconstitutional. He acted in the case of John K. Meulener, who tried to board an American Airlines flight and activated a magnetometer. Since Meulener also fitted the secret federal "skyjacker profile," which purports to list the characteristics of potential skyjackers, he was thoroughly searched. Authorities found 76 grams of heroin and more than half a kilo of marijuana in his suitcase, plus a vial of hashish oil in his pants pocket. He was promptly arrested. Judge Ferguson ruled, however, that the search had been unconstitutional for two reasons. It had not begun with a simple pat-down for weapons, which...
Filmed in Jamaica and New Orleans, with scenes yet to be shot in Harlem, the movie takes Agent 007 to the fictional island of San Monique, where Mr. Big, the first black villain in a Bond movie, runs a heroin-smuggling ring. There Bond-played for the first time by Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium...