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What most worries American commanders is the more recent-and more dangerous-spread of heroin. In 1966, there were only four disciplinary cases involving hard drugs; in 1970, there were 1,751 cases. In one 79-day period last year, 75 G.I.s died of suspected or confirmed use of heroin. Perhaps one in five G.I.s has smoked or "snorted" heroin. "Shooting" it with a needle is not yet widespread, which means that most heroin-addicted G.I.s in Viet Nam have weak "candy habits" that can be broken. Even so, warns Colonel Thornton E. Ireland, the U.S. provost marshal in Viet...
...song's final stanza is a footnote to 1968, when James left New York trying to escape heroin and personal squalor, and thus brought to an end The Flying Machine, a struggling group started by his friend Danny Kootch...
...amount of heroin seized skyrocketed from 22 decks ($10 quantities) in 1969, to 364 decks in 1970. Hashish confiscated jumped from two pounds in 1969, to 28 pounds...
Cambridge police arrested 40 per cent more suspects for drug offenses in 1970 than in 1969. Drug confiscations last year were more than ten times their 1969 rate for heroin and hashish. But these statistics have not resulted in any police action within the Harvard dormitories...
Although Kashnor and some street people said that heroin use has remained low, and that police have not cracked down on drugs, Cambridge police statistics for 1970 tell a different story...