Word: bloodstreams
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...heroin. Apparently believing that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before he recovered. Two others were not so fortunate. One suffered permanent brain damage after he mainlined milk; the other died...
...rich food. This does not work, however, because in these patients calcium is poorly absorbed from food. Now, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Frederic C. Bartter of the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., has devised a promising treatment based upon adding calcium via the bloodstream...
Except for its opening, a deceptively mild verse of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, the lyrics of It's a Drag were written by Milt Robertson and are a pastiche of radio and TV anti-smoking spots. "I don't have no more blood in my bloodstream," Felicia sings raspily, "just a mixture of tar and nicotine. So give it up, put it down and leave it there." She smiles brightly through her recital of nicotine terrors, gets progressively hoarser, ends in a thoroughly convincing coughing fit. Created by Sanders and her husband, Pianist-Arranger Irving Joseph...
...what we call the "concept of race." Yet, despite its absurdity, the fantasy of a blackless America continues to turn up. It is a fantasy born not merely of racism but of petulance, of exasperation, of moral fatigue. It is like a boil bursting forth from impurities in the bloodstream of democracy...
...confusing of the black American's racial background with his individual culture. Most of all, I refer to the recurring fantasy of solving one basic problem of American democracy by getting "shut" of the blacks through various wishful schemes that would banish them from the nation's bloodstream, from its social structure, and from its conscience and historical consciousness...