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Respectability for Heroin...
Obviously, one of the obstacles to early detection of heroin addiction in a teen-ager is the unwillingness of middle-or upper-class parents to acknowledge the idea that their son or daughter is seriously hooked on heroin. The customary last resorts in personal crisis are undependable. Parents tend to trust doctors implicitly, for example. But one 17-year-old girl from New York's suburban Westchester County arrived in a New York hospital for a checkup with fresh needle marks all over her arm. "The doctors kidded me about it," she says. "They said, 'Oh, oh, we know what...
Once parents discover that their child is using heroin, inevitably they blame themselves; in such tragedies, families can spend a lifetime unraveling the twisting threads of guilt without ever resolving where it lies. More immediately, however, it is important that parents learn how to recognize the symptoms of addiction (see box above). If they do not, or if they refuse to accept the harsh evidence, the chance of saving their child from an early death or a ruined life can be irretrievably lost. One well-to-do Washington, D.C., father, whose 16-year-old started on heroin...
...Heroin's New Image...
...have children and heroin come together now in this deadly combination? According to Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, who has treated young addicts in San Francisco and writes a popular "Dr. HIPpocrates" column in the Berkeley Barb, explains: "There is a growing use of heroin among young people because young people tend to value the respect of their peers above everything else. Taking the most dangerous drug you can find is -a way of gaining that respect. It's a kind of machismo thing...