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Blacks are understandably resentful that the problem of teen-age heroin addiction is suddenly getting attention because it has reached the white middle class. They have lived with it for two decades in the ghetto, and they are rightly enraged when a Narcotics Bureau official says that it was a problem?"but it was one we could live with." A 20year-old in the New York City Phoenix House program, who started on heroin in Harlem at twelve, complains: "Up there it's easier to get it than to avoid it. This is a good reason why the blacks...
...parent tell if a child is using heroin? No single sign is certain proof. The drug affects individuals differently, and many symptoms can be indicators of other youthful maladies. But any sudden change in a child's manner or habits should put parents on guard. What to watch...
...Withdrawal symptoms, when use of heroin has been interrupted, are the easiest indicators to spot: restlessness, nervousness, excessive yawning and sweating, running nose and eyes, twitching, cramps, vomiting and diarrhea. Pupils may be wide open. This period can last up to three days...
...Heroin addicts are often extremely cunning in avoiding detection. The drug usually comes in little glassine bags. It is a fine white, gray or brown powder, very bitter to the taste. The tools needed for an injection usually consist of a hypodermic syringe, often made from an eyedropper and a needle, a spoon or bottle cap (to dissolve the heroin), and cotton balls (to strain...
...HEROIN was believed to be harmless when it was developed in Germany in 1898 as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant. Only later was it realized that it was twice as potent as morphine. No one treatment for heroin addiction works in all cases, and there are almost as many approaches to the problem as there are experts...