Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued-part of it played scratchily from long, tape-recorded interviews with addicts-spectators got an astonishing picture of a strange new city: New York as it appears to a "junkie." It is a city where "pushers" peddle their wares almost as casually as sidewalk balloon vendors, where children sniff heroin even in classrooms, where an innocent-looking drugstore or cafeteria may be an addicts' hangout...
...Antonio last week, two businessmen installed a slot machine which advertised a hangover remedy for 25?. The remedy: a 30-second sniff of pure oxygen (which some people believe will mitigate hangovers), taken through a cone which the user holds to his nose...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...
...every sniff, hiss and boo they responded with rousing "Ahhs!" All in all, the exhibition raised a splendid ruckus...
...Sniff the Gas. In Carbon Dioxide Therapy (Charles C. Thomas; $5), Psychiatrist Meduna claims to have a possible answer: a few sniffs of the gas which puts the bubbles in soda water. This, according to Dr. Meduna, may make psychoanalysis unnecessary. And, he contends, it is wonderfully effective for anxiety, inferiority complexes and homosexuality, or such psychosomatic complaints as spastic colon, frigidity, impotence and stuttering...