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...Burton, as Author David Hulburd calls her in H Is for Heroin (Doubleday; $1.75), was a long-legged, golden-haired girl of 15 who was spending the summer in harmless idleness on the beach at "Coast City" (on the outskirts of Los Angeles) when she met Jocelyn. From Jocelyn, a 19-year-old senior, Amy learned to play hooky when high school opened; she also learned that "blowing up a joint" means smoking marijuana...
...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...
...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...
...Seattle Vice Squad was rounding up heroin addicts for a medical experiment. When detectives knocked at the door of Peggy, a prostitute, she threw 50 capsules of heroin, worth $6 each, out the window. At 22, Peggy had often tried to "kick it cold" (give it up), but she had gone back to "H" every time. That made her just the kind of girl Dr. John Hogness of the University of Washington was looking for. Hogness wanted to find out whether ACTH would help addicts over the agonizing withdrawal period. Peggy needed help for another reason: she was about...
...York City police picked up the youngest dope addict they had ever found, an eight-year-old Bronx boy, who confessed to smoking marijuana cigarettes. His story led police to a dozen other child addicts (heroin as well as marijuana). In the lower Bronx, the dope users are classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about...