Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skid Row room in Amsterdam's Rosse Buurt (red-light district), Dutch narcotics cops find a young addict dead, a syringe spiked in the hollow of his elbow...
...campaign throughout, Administrator Bensinger first filled in U.S. Attorneys who would prosecute the incoming arrestees, discussed the expected influx of prisoners with Norman Carlson, director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and consulted Dr. Robert Du-Pont, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about treatment requirements for addicts who would suddenly be in trouble as the supply of horse fell (the average addict needs five grams of heroin a day, at a cost of $60). Local hospitals were even alerted in case the planned arrests led to any injuries...
...Hartman, I was disappointed. The show had been billed as a parody of conventional soap opera; it was supposed to be funny, but I didn't laugh once. In fact, I thought the whole thing was so silly I almost turned off the set; fortunately, my mother, already an addict, wouldn't let me. In an uncharacteristic fit of tolerance, I agreed to give the program another chance. Within a week, I was hooked. I'd watch the show every night, and when friends dropped over, I'd force them to watch with me, hoping I could turn them...
...drug addict, Farber proposes, may be the prototype for all willful Americans hooked on the "demonic notion" that by chemistry or stubbornness, one can have what one wants, right now. As for suicide, Farber refers the reader to Dostoyevsky. "I will assert my will," says Kirillov in The Possessed-just be fore he commits suicide...
...never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance for some bootleg liquor and a paid informer in 1958 who led a reformed addict back to drugs and then got him arrested for dealing-the Supreme Court drew a line "between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal...