Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm X had been a plmp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His cospel was hatred: "Your babies will get pollo" he cried to the 'white devils'." His credo was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...
...husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago's American: MURDERER NABBED ON DOPE CHARGE...
...people you never heard of. Howard Nemerov '41, who teaches at Bennington, wrote genuinely evocative prose as an undergraduate; in "The Native in the World," he indulges in self-examination and self-pity which is utterly unsophisticated by most standards. His hero, John Bradshaw, has become a drug addict, sleeps 20 hours at one time, and is convinced that...
...smoking marijuana and "chipping" (occasionally taking) heroin. By 17, he was up to regular "snorting" (inhaling) and "skin popping" (taking heroin by nonintravenous injection). Cold-turkey withdrawals in jail did not work, and he seemed condemned to the hopeless life of a full-fledged drug addict. But last year a family-guidance counselor referred him to Leon Brill, an associate of Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. That may have been the first piece of good luck in B.'s unhappy life. Jaffe and Brill asked him to join...
...physiological need for narcotics, however, is only one of the many things that hook a user. The two other major contributors are the user's psychological makeup and his conditioned behavioral pattern-the strong likelihood that a return to old haunts and old friends will ease the post-addict back into old habits. Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope...