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...Source of 80% of the cocaine and heroin entering...
That craving can be staved off by substitute drugs--methadone for heroin, for example. But while doctors have found substitutes for nicotine and alcohol, there's nothing yet for cocaine and amphetamines. The craving can also be diverted through behavior-modification therapy and by regular participation in self-help groups like Narcotics Anonymous...
...Poets and playwrights wrote of insecurity. Pop singers may have (justifiably) felt it. But they certainly didn't sing about it to their fans. Lennon did. "Every now and then I feel so insecure," he sang in "Help!" He also admitted to jealousy, suicidal depression and (in "Cold Turkey") heroin addiction...
Homer Bennett's birth family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their...
...Sara Goldfarb story, this counterpoint that says here is a traditional drug story of Harry, Tyrone, and Marion that we've seen before, but the Sara story we've never seen before. What it shows us is that anything can be a drug; it doesn't have to be heroin. It could be TV, it could be coffee, it could be alcohol, it could be hope. It could be love. Because, ultimately the film is about the lengths people go to escape their reality. And when you escape your reality, you create a hole in your present...