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...helm of the project is Bill McCue, a man who has been involved in the drug world as a user, a major dealer, and now, as a reformer. After getting out of prison in 1971, McCue opened the first residential drug treatment program in Massachusetts...
What has not suffered from Reaganomics is the low-cost, low-effectiveness methadone treatment centers. Seven out-patient facilities in the state dispense the synthetic, which is designed to remove gradually the user's need for heroin. "We have had a good success rate with methadone," drug officials say. Most often measured in terms of a facility's utilization rate, success comes easily for a methodone treatment program. A methodone center tends to create its own demand. "If we were a methadone service," Bill McCue, director of project Third Nail, says, "we'd have lines of people down the block...
...levy of user fees. A part of the Administration's original package last March, these charges would be assessed to boat and plane owners to pay for federal maintenance of waterways and airports. At most, the higher fees will bring in about $980 million...
...cost from under $20 to about $120. Texas Instruments, a pioneer in "talking" computer chips, is the leading producer of these less expensive aids. (Others: Mattel, Coleco, Milton Bradley.) In 1978 TI introduced Speak & Spell, a talking learning aid, which imitated the human voice-questioning, coaching and correcting the user -with an integrated circuit on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete sentences at three levels of difficulty by pressing letters on a keyboard to spell out the correct words. For example, the machine slowly enunciates, "I want...
...Douglas A.F user, United Auto Workers, Sept...