Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Morales, a truant officer for Billings School District 2 and a recovering addict, deals with the meth problem too often in the form of 10- and 11-year-olds either on the drug or suffering abuse at the hands of spun-out relatives. "I call them the ghost children," he says. "I see them all the time...
...much to get spun out," he explains. As narcotics go, crank is famously cheap--a $20 bundle keeps you buzzing for up to 12 jaw-grinding, heart-pounding hours--but frequent users still have trouble affording it. For one thing, they tend to get grandiose while high. A recovering addict (in his one year of crank use, he went from reigning as high school homecoming king to serving a robbery sentence in a state penitentiary) remembers buying drinks for the house every time he set foot in a strange...
...diagnosis from the director of a local gang-prevention center: "Virtually all were abused, sexually and otherwise, as kids, and they hate the world." A young Nazi makes an unpersuasive victim, but still...one member of the Sharps--an interesting hybrid, skinheads devoted to racial tolerance--had a meth-addict mother and a pothead father, an alcoholic stepfather and a favorite aunt who died of a heroin overdose...
...With the Golden Arm (1955) Sinatra was proud of this one, in which he plays heroin addict Frankie Machine, because it was one of Hollywood's first looks at drug addiction. Now a bit dated, it still has harrowing moments...
When he was nine, ERIC CLAPTON discovered the woman he thought was his older sister was really his mother. Now that he's 53, other members of his family have popped up. The Canadian papers have unearthed TED RICH, once an up-and-coming Vancouver guitarist, now a heroin addict living in a flophouse. He and Clapton were both fathered by Edward Fryer, a Canadian soldier who met Clapton's mother in Britain during the war. Rich also has a sister, living in Florida. Rich says he would like to meet his half brother, but not until...