Word: heroines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, Britain is disturbed over news that addiction has increased sharply and is still increasing. By the end of 1966, known addicts numbered almost 1,300, with probably 200 under 20 taking heroin. There was an uneasy suspicion that the true numbers might be four times as great. What had gone wrong with the famed British system...
There were isolated instances in which doctors had grossly overprescribed heroin-in one case, 1,500 tablets in four days for one patient. Some addicts used aliases to get multiple prescriptions from different doctors. Obviously, most of these extra drugs must have been passed along by the addicts to nonaddicts who wanted to experiment and eventually became hooked themselves. What broke down was not so much the system as the principle of permissiveness itself. The new offbeat generation, helped-so the British say -by an influx of a hundred or more junkies from the U.S. and Canada, exhibited a forbidden...
...government has now told Parliament it is time to crack down. But it is fearful that its efforts to curtail legal supplies of heroin might leave a vacuum into which smugglers and pushers will rush, making the "cure" worse than the present disease. Trying to balance on this tightrope, the government will soon introduce legislation with the following provisions...
...Only selected hospital doctors will be allowed to prescribe heroin and cocaine for registered addicts, and must guard against increasing doses...
Will this moderate change of course work? Says a government spokesman: "It's a gamble-we can't say what the outcome will be." But something must be done: the black-market price of heroin is already rising ominously...