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...page report also released findings of a three-year study by the National Institute of Mental Health which concluded that marijuana does not necessarily lead to heroin addiction but that it is a dangerous drug and may cause damage in chronic users...
...Government would stop spreading obvious lies about the dangers of marijuana, maybe more children would listen to it about the real dangers of heroin...
Both sons of auto mechanics, Reds and Dino are high-school dropouts who long ago learned to hustle in the streets of Washington, D.C. Two years ago, they were snorting or shooting heroin, snatching purses and breaking into parked cars. They gave up drugs and street crime when they discovered the New Thing, founded by Colin ("Topper") Carew, 27, a former Boston gang leader who will soon earn a bachelor's degree from Yale. Financed mainly by foundation grants, the New Thing is, according to Carew, "a black arts high school in Washington for kids who have rejected public...
Earline inhabits a very different world from Laura Calhoun's. Born in Memphis to a Negro mother and Puerto Rican father, she has been on drugs for nine years, heroin for five. She has been raped twice; the second time she shot her attacker to death. A week before Christmas in 1968, she stabbed her mother, who had abandoned her years before. Earline has been arrested repeatedly-for forgery, robbery, manslaughter. Now she is in Chicago's Gateway House, a treatment center for drug addicts, trying to kick heroin...
...started selling drugs-oh, at about 13," says Bruce. "It wasn't dangerous selling drugs at Theodore Roosevelt High School-like all day long, like the people would just be sprawled all over the auditorium, sniffing drugs and smoking reefers. I started getting high on scag [heroin] at 14 or 15. I was making nearly $500-$750 a week selling drugs. But I was using just about that much worth of drugs...