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...Social Problems, Winick reports that 82% of the jazzmen tried marijuana at least once, 54% were occasional users and 23% were "regulars." Some 53% had tried heroin, 24% took it occasionally and 16% used it regularly. Winick found that often there was "positive social pressure" on jazz players to use drugs, cited one band in which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems...
...vast majority taper off as they get older. Winick found that, of his subjects over 40, only two were still hooked on heroin. Explained one 43-year-old jazzman who had kicked the habit: "I guess I just diminuendoed...
...Connection is all about drug addicts, and it has a sporadic, hypodermic sort of distinction. The junkies sit in a pad impatiently waiting, but for nothing so vague as Godot: they wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky...
Playwright Jack Gelber, 27, who freely admits he has used every drug from heroin to peyote, is ultimately unsuccessful and self-conscious in his assault on theatrical illusion. But if The Connection and other Living Theater productions have perhaps earned more praise than they deserve, it is because critics with an eye on the future are recognizing that the group is hunting for new ways and forms. "I'm trying to sell an idea," says one character in The Connection. "What's so immoral about that?" Then he adds: "Swing, baby," and in its own odd way, Living...
Mainline Cut. In Los Angeles, Ralph Armijo confessed to police that he was working his way through barber college by peddling heroin...