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Article: HEROIN // THE WHITE-COLLAR WORKPLACE WRESTLES WITH JUNK ON THE JOB
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 29, 1995
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Heroin is expanding from Chicago's back alleys and poor
neighborhoods into its corporate offices.
Sold on the streets as "Candy, Nasty Boy and China White,"
heroin is being sought by growing numbers of white-collar Chicagoans,
say local narcotics investigators and substance abuse experts.
Said Dr. David Barthwell, medical director of the chemical
dependence service at Northwestern Memorial Hospital: "We're seeing
an influx of patients that don't fit the stereotype of the
traditional user of heroin - the poor and the longtime users who
experimented in the 1960s."
Concerned about their safety and fearful of appearing out of
place in drug-plagued neighborhoods, these upscale users pay up ...