Word: hypo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great majority of physicians say the drugs upset the body's natural hormonal balance, particularly that involving testosterone, which is present, though in different amounts, in both men and women. Normally, the hypo thalamus, the part of the brain that regulates many of the body's func tions, "tastes" the testosterone levels; if it finds them too low, it signals the pituitary gland to trigger increased production...
...mixture of heroin and cocaine in a soda-bottle cap for her guests. She squirts in water, then heats the cap with a match. She reaches into an empty Quaker Oats box where she stores the "works"-hypodermic needle and syringe-and sucks up the liquid into the hypo. It costs $2 to shoot up, plus $3 for a new needle or $1 for a used...
...little while, the Captain and Snowdrop head home. "I'm quitting next week," the Captain says as he pauses on Fourth Street to look at a mural on a tenement wall, an eagle clutching a hypo above the legend in red letters: COME FLY WITH ME FOOL! Just before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, the Captain spots a young white couple crouching together in the front seat of a Mercedes. The man throws a bloody rag out the window. "They just couldn't wait to get home before shooting up," he tells Snowdrop. She smiles back, still glowing...