Word: heroines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Roman Nose. Caron was arrested and charged with bringing heroin from Mexico into the U.S. While he did not know the name of the man who was his contact in Connecticut, Caron described him initially as "a man of Italian or Jewish ancestry, Roman nose, curly hair, dark-complexioned." Miller is a light-complexioned man of Irish background who has wavy hair and a straight nose. Yet, when Caron was asked to look over some mug shots, one of two photos he picked out was that of Miller, who was known to federal authorities because of his friendship with...
...PRESS label and the Barbarellaesque book jacket could not be more misleading: Mood Indigo will be a disappointment to the whips-and-white-things crowd. It's a love-story and a fantasy, but it's about as far from A Man with a Maid as grass is from heroin...
...which methadone works is not known, but it involves tolerance and cross-tolerance, or blockade. The patients who take carefully stepped-up doses of methadone be come tolerant in the sense that they observe no outward effect from it. Presumably because methadone works on the same brain centers as heroin, it induces a cross-tolerance to heroin and blocks its effects. A methadone patient can be challenged with a massive mainline fix and show no response-except enormous relief at the knowledge that now he can take it or leave it alone. He can watch his old friends shooting horse...
...twice-daily installments, to the blockade level. After that, the patients are discharged but required to report to a clinic regularly for at least a year-daily at first, later tapering off to once a week if they stay clean. "Clean" means that their urine samples reveal no heroin on analysis. On these visits, patients are required to drink a full dose of methadone to show that they have been taking it at home and have retained their tolerance. This precaution is continued indefinitely, even after patients have held a job for a year or more. In the pilot program...
Second Government. A number of Cosa Nostra families, including Valachi's, outlawed drug trafficking because it brought too many federal agents around. Still, Joe found the profits irresistible. When he began importing heroin from France (purchase price-$2,500 per kilo, U.S. selling price-$11,-000), he brought down on his head both the Cosa Nostra and the Bureau of Narcotics...