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Among the social functions performed by poverty, says Gans, is the guarantee of status to the nonpoor. The working class needs the poor to look down on; the aristocracy, by busying itself with settlement houses and charity balls, justifies its existence and proves its superiority to workers who grub for...
To many of those involved in the fight against heroin addiction, methadone seems to be the most workable weapon yet devised. A synthetic morphine substitute, it relieves the symptoms of narcotic withdrawal, blocks heroin's euphoric effects and allows an addict to lead a relatively normal life. But methadone...
The problem posed by methadone's addictive properties remains to be solved. But two doctors at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have experimented with a drug that may resolve the dilemma of distribution. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay...
Marihuana Reconsidered, however, is definitely not an apologia for general narcotic or hallucinogenic drug use. Grinspoon's careful exposition of cannabis chemistry and physiological action is much too specific to be applied to other drugs. In fact, one targer of Grinspoon's book is current legislation which groups marihuana with...
MAN'S first landing on the moon made hardly a dent in the American cool. It had the aura of a TV studio fabrication; the excitement lasted about as long as a commercial. This inability to respond to the ever-increasing size of events has become the American narcotic. The...