Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abuse among younger people has diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth, it's obvious that drug use is going to decline." Marijuana has been widely feared as the "gateway drug" that leads teenagers from smoking joints to experimenting with stronger stuff, such as cocaine and heroin. In 1978, according to government surveys, a staggering 10% of all high school seniors smoked marijuana every day. Today the percentage has dropped by half. That is still way too high, but attitudes have changed markedly. Only one-quarter of high school seniors reported that...
...period of social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly the yuppie who has got his head screwed on halfway straight is not going to put that stuff in his nose, as he might have been tempted to do by a well-meaning user friend three or four years ago. You'd just have to be crazy to do it, with what people have seen...
...Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search for new veins to pop. The only limit on the amount of crack an addict can use is the amount he has. "There is no such thing as saving crack," says Dr. Herbert Kleber of Yale Medical School. "You use what you have...
...hamming it up. "Most people know what to expect when they come in, but a few seem taken aback," says Taylor, 32. "It's like going into a museum and being given an easel." Right: the perfect museum for the '80s. The artworks come alive and parade their stuff, just like old times...
...Tough stuff, but not uncommon at Harvard, where William Hawkins, '76 and now head of his own California computer-software firm, recalls battling for two years for permission to design a specialized computer-science major for himself alone -- with which he earned magna cum laude. "Harvard was a real sink-or-swim environment," he says. "I learned to be totally self-reliant. The university's idea of personal counseling was, 'What can we do to make you study...