Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
Explaining that psychosis occurrence is the same among users as among non-users of marijuana. Grinspoon added, "If we assume that marijuana embraces people with more than the usual amount of neurotic or mental problems, the drug may well be protecting its user from psychosis by dulling the impact of unbearable anxiety or overwhelming reality...
...effort is ever made to arrest every user of marijuana," a police official who commands a precinct in New York's East Village told an audience of about 35 at Lowell House last night...
...John H. Gagnon in a jointly written paper, "and what appears to adults as unreasonable, is that the prize be located at the top of the Cracker Jack box, not at the bottom." Another attraction, they add, is that drugs can screen out reality and allow the youthful user to withdraw to the private sanctuary of his self...
Society must recognize as well that the child drug user is the casualty of great and upsetting social change. In one sense, says Clinical Psychologist Stephen Rush of the Los Angeles Free Clinic, he has become a displaced person in a culture that his grandfather would not recognize-or much care for, either. Parental permissiveness, the growing conviction that the young and old generations have lost contact-such factors erode the old-fashioned family solidarity that once granted children a comforting sense of place. "The real solution," says Rush, "is in finding ways for young people to become active members...