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...smoking marijuana and "chipping" (occasionally taking) heroin. By 17, he was up to regular "snorting" (inhaling) and "skin popping" (taking heroin by nonintravenous injection). Cold-turkey withdrawals in jail did not work, and he seemed condemned to the hopeless life of a full-fledged drug addict. But last year a family-guidance counselor referred him to Leon Brill, an associate of Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. That may have been the first piece of good luck in B.'s unhappy life. Jaffe and Brill asked him to join...
...small for the doctors to draw any certain conclusions, but Jaffe and Brill report encouraging results. In the first issue of The International Journal of the Addictions, they say that of eleven male volunteers, only one so far did not work out; he decided to try methadone, a heroin replacement that also impedes highs but is itself addictive (TIME, Sept. 3). Among the other ten, preliminary results show varying signs of success. Most have reported a lessening of narcotic craving and say that they have tried large doses of their old drug once or twice with little or no effect...
...fully aware," concluded Jaffe and Brill, "that our enthusiasm may be playing an even larger role than cyclazocine." Whether that enthusiasm is a necessary ingredient, and whether it can be transmitted to patients "more typical of the antisocial urban heroin user," is something that can only be learned with further testing...
There was little question that Narcotics Addict Charles Freeman had actually been pushing heroin. And it was hardly surprising that the court found him guilty-despite the defense contention that Freeman may have known that what he was doing was wrong, but had neither the capacity nor the will to be responsible for his acts. The judge was simply following a century-old precedent; he was applying the M'Naghten Rule, which holds that a man may be judged not responsible or insane only if he did not know what he was doing, or did not know that what...
...associate Director the University Health Services, urged the Massachusetts legislature to outlaw the possession of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs. Prout told the legislature's Committee on Public Health that he supports a proposed bill that would put LSD, psilocybin and DMT in the same class as marijuana and heroin. He and an official from the State Food and Drug Dept. were the only witnesses who spoke on the bill...