Word: addict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unplugging the phone, drawing the blinds and passing out. She drank the dregs from the wineglasses after parties and gulped peanut butter to disguise the smell. Her isolation was matched only by her shame: she had often been held up to the public as a model of a recovered addict. In the final pages, as she describes losing everything, Kitty finds her strongest voice. By the end, she'd win every vote for courage and all hopes for a victory...
...Throw-'Em-In-Jail-To-Keep-'Em-From-Using-It mentality which pervades Bennett's strategies and is behind the random testing approach shows a serious ignorance of the psychology of addiction. Drug addiction, like alcoholism, cannot be treated by forcing the user to stop through legal penalties. Only once they admit to themselves that they have a problem can addicts reform. An addict needs our sympathy and pity and will be less likely to come forward when there are heavy legal penalties for drug...
...story room bleak. When a drug user comes in, drops a dirty needle into a plastic bucket and receives a fresh sterile syringe and needle in exchange, no name is given, no questions are asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times a day, five days a week...
...makes people go out of their heads," says Edgar, 15. "My friends would stop me if I ever tried it." His mouth pursed with disgust, J.J., 15, says, "It makes people skinny and ugly." In South Central the only thing worse than a "basehead" is a "strawberry," a woman addict who trades sex for crack. J.J.'s mother is a basehead, and probably also a strawberry, but he won't discuss her. He'll fight anyone who does...
That number could soon soar even higher. In the past, street heroin was 6% to 10% pure and an addict had to take it intravenously to get high. Many cocaine users are unwilling to break through the "needle barrier" and inject themselves, in part out of fear of being infected with AIDS from a shared needle. But for the past several years, less diluted heroin from Southeast Asia that can be smoked has been widely available on the streets of New York, Boston and other cities. At $10 a 0.05-gram bag, the so-called China White is cheap enough...