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...part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other part to be sold. In one instance a patrolman arrested a pusher on the street, while a detective seized the opportunity to burglarize the pusher's home. In another case two cops supplied heroin to an addict until her horrified boy friend went to the commissioner's office. One of the cops pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail; the other was merely dismissed from the force...
...poster, psychedelically colored, shows the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and a naked Tinker Bell, and other Walt Disney characters indulging in what looks like one of the Marquis de Sade's more complicated performances. Meantime, Mickey Mouse is shooting heroin into his arm. In another poster, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy are getting stoned on a water pipe...
...drug problem was first driven home to the American public by former Army Secretary Stanley Resor and Connecticut Congressman Robert H. Steele, who reported that between 10% and 15% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam -or 26,000 to 39,000 men-had developed a heroin habit. Few quarreled with that estimate, and some placed the number even higher...
...crimes or turned themselves in for treatment during the first six months of this year. Nor do they register those casual users strong enough to kick their habits temporarily and pass the urinalysis test. Jarre himself admits his figures represent only "men who had become dependent on opiates, including heroin." He said that surveys taken in April and May of men below the rank of. buck sergeant showed that about 10% or 11% had used heroin once. But at least the addiction rate, though still insupportable, does not seem as steep as was feared...
...somewhat different kind seem to have become even more useful. From solemn public officials and eager corporations, from newspapers, television (and even, some dare say, from newsmagazines) comes a googol of seemingly definitive and unarguable statistics. They tell us, with an exactitude that appears magical, the number of heroin addicts in New York and the population of the world. By simulating reality, they assure us that facts are facts, and that life can be understood, put in order, perhaps even mastered...