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...theme. Some of the victims have been executed, gangland style, shot either in the head or the back. Some have been kidnapped, tortured and beaten to death. Others died suffocated with pillows or with plastic bags over their heads. All had one thing in common: an affiliation with heroin...
...horrors of addiction have hit Detroit, once relatively heroin-free, with a force beyond the usual tragic toll of broken lives and deaths by overdose. Since last August, there has raged an all-out war for control of the booming $350 million drug market. So far this year, it has claimed 40 lives, an average of one every four days. The dead: penny-ante pushers and some major dealers grabbing for a larger piece of the action and killed by their peers...
...opposite sides of the city. At one time, three loosely knit gangs regulated the distribution of Detroit's limited drug trade. But as the number of black users increased, along with the number of street pushers, organization began to break down. The gangs still control the flow of heroin into the city, but once it is cut, it is every man for himself...
...many of those involved in the fight against heroin addiction, methadone seems to be the most workable weapon yet devised. A synthetic morphine substitute, it relieves the symptoms of narcotic withdrawal, blocks heroin's euphoric effects and allows an addict to lead a relatively normal life. But methadone also has its drawbacks. It is almost as addictive as the heroin it replaces, and most addicts must indefinitely maintain their new, though less destructive, habit. Because methadone is short-acting, it must be taken daily; addicts starting treatment must either report to a clinic for daily dosages or be given...
...A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...