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When Pierre Samuel du Pont IV told his father that he wanted to go to law school, Pierre Samuel du Pont III was baffled. Du Ponts, after all, did not become lawyers, they hired them. Twelve years later, after du Pont had finished law school and fulfilled his filial obligation by working in the family business -- the country's largest chemical company -- he went back to his father. He was restless: one of his more memorable company tasks was assessing whether du Pont should manufacture peanut butter and jelly in an aerosol can. He wanted to try his hand...
Various efforts around the country are targeted on IV drug abusers, though most of them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure...
...York City, with the nation's largest IV addict population, Stephan Sorrell, a streetwise physician at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, calls for more radical interventions. "If we want to stem the tide of this epidemic," he says, "we have to open more methadone-treatment slots. I'd suggest that we go to Needle Park and give away methadone and syringes rather than letting the dealers sell heroin." Currently, there are only 30,000 methadone slots for the city's 200,000 or more IV addicts. Last week New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced that the state would...
Federal efforts to reach drug abusers are just beginning. This October NIDA will embark on a three-year pilot program in 15 cities aimed at reaching IV drug users, their sex partners and prostitutes. They will be urged to enter methadone-treatment programs, use condoms and get AIDS-virus testing and counseling. Some black leaders complain, however, that too much of the federal AIDS-education programs and funds is aimed at white, middle-class students, rather than at the young, inner-city IV addicts and their sexual partners, who are much more at risk. For the moment the Reagan Administration...
Among those working hardest to contain the spread of AIDS in the urban ghettos, there is often a sense of despair. Drug addicts are tough subjects for reform. "We need to stop the recruitment of young people into IV drug use in the first place," says Don Des Jarlais, of the New York State division of substance abuse services. Working with youths who are sniffing but not yet injecting heroin, Des Jarlais says, "We get them thinking about AIDS and what to do to prevent themselves from becoming exposed...