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Some youngsters mix large amounts of alcohol with other drugs. "They may go up all night on cocaine and get racing, then later on use alcohol to come down and get to sleep," says Kevin McEneaney of Phoenix House, a Manhattan drug- free center. "They may also use alcohol to mask other drugs. Drinking is more respectable than putting powder in your nose." Illinois State Trooper Bob Campbell says teenagers often cover drugs by having a drink before driving. If they are stopped by police, the blood alcohol level will be too low to result in arrest...
...Angeles, 60 were from cocaine users. At Manhattan's Phoenix House, a quarter of all addicts treated are women, but in the night program, set up for drug abusers who work during the day, 40% of those treated are women, almost all of them cocaine consumers. Says Kevin McEneaney, Phoenix House's senior vice president: "This is an almost unheard-of statistic. Traditionally, women have made up one-fourth to one-third of treatment-clinic populations...
...Under pressure from drug-abuse experts, Valium's manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche, has dramatically cut production of the drug, and many doctors have stopped prescribing it for simple anxiety. In 1975, 60 million prescriptions for Valium were written in the U.S., compared with 25 million in 1983. Says McEneaney: "Since two out of three Valium prescriptions are written for women, presumably many females who cannot get Valium have switched to coke...
...wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person, I don't let things get the best of me. Nothing. But I know I'm powerless with cocaine." Says Kevin McEneaney, senior vice president of New York's Phoenix House drug-treatment center: "We all think our personalities are well grounded and well formed, but it doesn't take a lot to tilt the psychological balance." Bensinger, the former DEA chief, has his own plausible criterion for measuring that tilt: "What will...
...superb stickman scored the first goal against Hopkins and finished his final afternoon of college competition with a hat trick and four assists. Sophomore Tommy Marino, whose older brother Billy was an All-American on last year's championship squad, supported McEneaney with three goals...