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WASHINGTON, D. C. -- The Senate's Special Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics Friday heard testimony on heroin from nine people, five of whom were former addicts...
...students, one an ex-addict and the other an ex-pusher, testified on heroin use in the suburbs, which they said was growing rapidly...
Four officials of various rehabilitation programs spoke on different means to help an addict to kick his habit. One of the more disputed methods is methadome, a drug which reportedly has no addictive qualities, yet can get an addict of heroin and functioning normally without any bad side effects. Often former addicts stay on methadome treatment for a long period of time...
Helpern says, "because each addict's tolerance to heroin can vary not only from week to week but from day to day, depending on how much he has been using...
Even when the heroin dose is not strong enough to cause sudden death, its depressive effect on the respiratory system can bring on severe lung congestion resulting in death within a few hours. Most other heroin deaths are due to viral or bacterial infections carried by the needle. These infections include endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart valves, tetanus, which kills few people aside from addicts nowadays, and viral hepatitis...