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...former drug addict, 1 would like to commend you for your excellent article about junkies [March 16]. At long last, someone is telling it like it is about a junkie's world. Although I was addicted to speed (Methedrine), and not heroin, most of my friends were junkies, and the man who turned me on was a junkie himself. I tried heroin a couple of times and never cared for it, but I saw what it did to my friends. They never completely recovered, and six of them are dead...
...gave me insight into the problems of heroin users and confirmed my desire to help all I can. If there were more people in the world like Dr. Densen-Gerber to stamp out this horrible nightmare, and if all of us would work together, perhaps the world would be a better place...
...high school market with greater frequencyin recent months, and drug raids in Cambridge are now averaging more than two a month. Most busts are directed at dealers, and not at high school users. The thrust of the raids is to stifle the flow of impure and addictive drugs- especially heroin- to small children. The number of heroin addicts of high school age and under has risen rapidly during the past year and a half throughout the country, and as Cochran put it, "It's a sad situation when eight- and ten-year-olds are dying of overdoses of heroin...
...another under staff scrutiny. A few, like the two federal narcotics hospitals at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, Texas, are more conservatively run; most of their patients are ordered there by the courts rather than entering voluntarily and have less motivation for reform. More than 90% eventually return to heroin...
...bill will aid Government investigators in tracing the often devious routes by which money goes abroad and returns anonymously to the U.S. Robert M. Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney for the New York area, asserts that some Swiss bank accounts are used to deposit the profits of heroin trafficking. Less often recognized is the dubious or downright illegal use of Swiss bank accounts by seemingly respectable businessmen...