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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 00:05:31 EDT
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In article <720@nrcvax.UUCP>, terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes:
> 
> One small question here:  Some drugs taken often seem to make it
> virtually impossible for a person to hold a job.  It seems to me,
> therefore, that even if drugs were cheap, there would still be some
> stealing for drug money, because the addicted persons wouldn't be able
> to work.  (In case you didn't notice, I'm not talking about the casual
> user or the social user, but the hard-core, can't-live-without-it
> addict.)
> 
	Well for one thing, it would be cheaper, so they would not have
to steal as much.

	If the life of Dr. Steward Halsted, one of the founders 
of the John Hopkins Hospital, is any indication, large doses of
morphine (and therefore heroin--di-acetyl morphine breaks down into morphine
in 20 minutes or so), is not incompatible with holding a job.  Alcohol is
incompatible with holding most jobs, at least in excess.    How much
crime in our society is a result of people stealing to support their
alcohol habit?  

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