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...Typical responses to amphetamine, a stimulant and not a narcotic, are alertness and a sense of wellbeing; to pentobarbital, well-being and drowsiness; to the narcotics heroin and morphine, disquiet and drowsiness. Anybody who reacts atypically to one, e.g., feeling sleepy after amphetamine, is likely to have unusual reactions to all the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Matters of Mood | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has headed ever since. Last week Commissioner Anslinger, 62, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who knows more about the worldwide drug traffic than any other man on earth. reported to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a growing narcotic menace: Communist China's $60 million-a-year dope trade, deliberately and officially pursued to earn foreign exchange, "finance political activities, and spread addiction among free peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dope from Red China | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Esme is a slim, wistful artist's model, and a heroin addict. In her lost, grieving face, Wyatt finds inspiration for his forged Madonnas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Invasion of Privacy. In Cincinnati, after police pumped out a dose of heroin that Joseph Neal, 26, had swallowed to avoid arrest on a narcotics charge, Neal loudly demanded his freedom, argued that the evidence had been obtained without a search warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...other hand, police, who first neglected to seal his apartment, later found therein: a marijuana cigarette, a red heroin capsule, two hypo needles (one taped above a closet door), a blood-splotched towel and a white nylon girdle embroidered with pink flowers. In the past 18 months, it turned out, young Thorne had checked in 24 times at a cheap hotel, always alone, usually under false names but only twice with luggage. He had not lived at home since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Tragedy of Monty Thorne | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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