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...problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse"). A few "pushers" (the smallest of small-fry peddlers) are caught, but for the most part the courts and the jails see only the addicts-the sick...
...Among Dr. Adams' patients in the coastal resort of Eastbourne was wealthy old Mrs. Morell, who had suffered a cerebral stroke in 1948. For her Dr. Adams prescribed 1,629 grains of barbiturates. 1,928 grains of Sedormid (a sedative). 164 grains of morphine and 139 grains of heroin, over a period of ten and a half months. At the end of that time, 82-year-old Mrs. Morell died and was cremated. Six years later, after police investigated his treatment of Mrs. Morell and other patients, he was charged with having murdered Mrs. Morell by administering excessive doses...
...with the Golden Rule. In Hong Kong, detectives spotted Chiu Chun Kai piously walking about with a Bible in his hand, opened it, found seven packets of heroin hidden between its covers...
...poets (with very few exceptions) stopped thinking after T. S. Eliot, divided into two camps, and started publishing little magazines. The first flails away at the English language, American technology, form, the gentle passions, and the fairer sex; its grenadiers are men like Allen Ginsberg--neurotic Walt Whitmans with heroin and hypodermic needles and an intense sense of persecution. The second consists of old men with furrowed brows, writing for university quarterlies and occasionally publishing in the Atlantic; substituting form for substance, proceeding with hunched back and hickory cane down the convoluted paths of experiment, translating Latin quartets, and employing...
...being seen riding in Cadillacs from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess I can't be all that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother...