Word: ramer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HELEN B. RAMER Washington...
Methadone's advocates answer that whatever its drawbacks, it is far less dangerous than heroin. They reject the notion that dependency is undesirable. Dr. Barry Ramer, whose Center for Special Problems has just won a $121,000 grant from the city of San Francisco, equates methadone with insulin, which some diabetics take daily without suffering social opprobrium. Herman Lancaster of the state-sponsored Illinois Drug Abuse Program stresses that methadone enables the addict "to do what he could never do before." Dr. Robert DuPont, head of the Washington, D.C., Narcotics Treatment Administration, calls total and unassisted abstinence, which...
...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. In San Francisco, Dr. Barry Ramer, director of the Study for Special Problems, calls heroin now "the most readily available drug on the streets." He adds: "In my wildest nightmares, I never dreamed of what we are seeing today...