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...needle. But Ralphie is a junkie. He has not only used heroin, but he has also taken part in muggings and sold drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Last week Ralphie was in Manhattan's Odyssey House, in a group therapy session with a psychiatrist and a dozen ex-addicts aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted to go back home to The Bronx. The doctor, Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder of Odyssey House, and Ralphie's young friends there were trying to make him recognize that if he left them, he would have no chance to break...
...Council on Drug Addiction and author of Drug Scene. Dr. Elliot Luby, associate director of Detroit's addict-treating Lafayette Clinic, concurs: "Addiction is really reaching epidemic proportions. You have to look at it as an infectious disease." Epidemic, of course, is a relative term, but as a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Schwarz, says: "Now we're seeing it clinically, whereas before we weren't. The kids on heroin all have long histories of drug use." At the California-based Synanon self-help centers for addicts, the teen-age population has risen from zero five years ago to 400 today...
Jeffrey's father, a prosperous Chicago wholesaler: "A psychiatrist told me and our doctor that Jeff would grow out of it. I say if you feel they're on anything, that's the time to stop them. Explain to them that they'll go on to something worse. We never denied him anything. Maybe we were too easy. But we always felt he respected us. We don't drink. We don't run around. We lead a good conservative life. The hopeful thing to me: he does want help. My son? Ridiculous?until it happens...
...parent should calmly confront a younger child with his suspicions without accusing or condemning him. He should take the child to a clinic, doctor or psychiatrist for an examination. If an older child flatly refuses examination, the parent should turn to juvenile court or social agencies for help. Some states have forced commitment to narcotics treatment centers, others permit voluntary rehabilitation...
...shows, four are youth-oriented. The Young Rebels, a one-hour drama set in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, focuses on three young members of a Yankee guerrilla band. The Young Lawyers deals with law students and a legal-aid society. In Dial Hot Line. Psychiatrist Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey) runs a telephone service set up by a metropolitan hospital to deal with troubled teens who have no one else to talk to. The Partridge Family is a situation-comedy series dealing with a rock group headed by the mother of the family (shades of The Cowsills...