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Even in this age of instant obsolescence, fashionable slang wears out faster than most commodities. What is very lively in Kansas City today may brand a user as quaint in Manhattan or the Bay Area. It thus becomes periodically necessary, as French Poet Stéphane Mallarmé once suggested, donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu -to purify the dialect of the tribe...
...donor. The procedure as now employed can be both profitable and dangerous. Whole blood should not be given more often than every two months. But donors can and do sell plasma far more frequently, and often to laboratories that fail to protect either them or the ultimate user of their life-saving product...
...First Baptist Church in Mill Valley, John Streater of First Baptist in San Francisco, and Edward Plowman of Park Presidio Baptist Church in the city. To communicate with the hip settlers in Haight-Ashbury, the three hired Ted Wise, now 33, a burly Sausalito sailmaker and former drug user who had been converted through MacDonald. Before long, Wise decided that "to bring them back from sin," he first had to change the environment of his converts. So he and his wife, together with four other couples, opened a Christian commune in nearby Novato called the House of Acts...
Hardened drug users in business are generally in their early 20s and usually in low-echelon jobs. The ghetto black is still the heaviest heroin user but as his need for the drug grows, he usually drops out of the labor force. The number of white workers dependent on heroin is increasing, but the whites still tend to less addictive drugs, notably barbiturates and amphetamine capsules. Most users in industry turn on with marijuana, or pot; if nothing else, it can diminish their ability...
Eventually, business will have to take a more active role in aiding drug-dependent workers, helping to support adequately staffed treatment centers. Dr. Rosenthal of Phoenix House says: "Not until private industry realizes that the drug user is increasingly white, bright and productive is it likely to take a rehabilitative approach to drugs." The shortsighted effort to save money on rehabilitation may well prove increasingly costly to business in terms of lower output and lost careers...