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...part of it played scratchily from long, tape-recorded interviews with addicts-spectators got an astonishing picture of a strange new city: New York as it appears to a "junkie." It is a city where "pushers" peddle their wares almost as casually as sidewalk balloon vendors, where children sniff heroin even in classrooms, where an innocent-looking drugstore or cafeteria may be an addicts' hangout...
...read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao-the uncut heroin smuggled in from the Portuguese island colony of Macao...
Weeping, the boy confessed that he had used drugs for a year-first marijuana on a dare from a schoolmate, then the virulent morphine derivative, heroin. The drug made him feel "high and light," and after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...
Once "hooked," the youngsters behave frighteningly like older addicts. To get money for heroin, they steal at home, sell the drug on commission in school hallways and lavatories. Some boys become thieves and holdup artists; many a teen-age girl has turned to prostitution...