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...early 1950s when he was with the Chicago Tribune and during his years on LIFE. Since coming to TIME he has specialized in stories about the mob, gambling, crime in general. Sandy drew on his sources in Washington and New York in tracing the role of organized crime in heroin traffic. Says Smith: "The pusher-especially to kids-is lousy, but even he isn't as low as the gangster who finances it. Organized crime is the absolute lowest level of society. With drugs they're making everyone as scummy as themselves...
Doctor: Are you going to shoot more heroin...
RALPH DE JESUS is twelve years old, a 60-lb. wisp of a boy barely four feet tall, with gentle eyes and pale arms so thin that it is almost impossible to believe that they could take a needle. But Ralphie is a junkie. He has not only used heroin, but he has also taken part in muggings and sold drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Last week Ralphie was in Manhattan's Odyssey House, in a group therapy session with a psychiatrist and a dozen ex-addicts aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted...
Ralphie got to Odyssey House from a hospital, where he had been seriously ill with hepatitis, contracted from a dirty needle he used to mainline heroin by injecting it into a vein in his arm. He is probably the youngest addict to surface for treatment in a terrifying wave of heroin use among youth, which has caught up teen-agers and even preadolescent children from city ghettos to fashionable suburbs, from New York ?where the problem is still most severe ?to the West Coast. One 17-year-old at Odyssey House knew Walter Vandermeer, 12, who died...
...Synanon, where success with adult addicts who stay within the supportive framework of the house is high but sadly lower with those who leave completely, Synanon Official Bill Ullman contends: "There is no cure for heroin." Dr. Densen-Gerber believes that teen-agers will be easier to help than adult addicts, if only because they are more resilient physically and emotionally and highly responsive to peer group influence inside a treatment center. But she is at a loss to deal with the Ralphies, the pre-teen junkies who are unable to comprehend that the alternatives to treatment are jail...