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00:00:32 #1 headlines like these in American newspapers I would have called him crazy.
00:00:36 #2 Yet here we are reading them. In the middle of the 20th century in the United
00:00:42 #3 States of America hundreds and hundreds of teenage boys and girls are
00:00:46 #4 becoming hopeless dope addicts every year. It's fantastic, it's unbelievable, and
00:00:51 #5 it's terrible, but it's true. The government maintains two hospitals just
00:00:57 #6 to treat drug addicts at Lexington, Kentucky and Fort Worth, Texas. It used to be a rare
00:01:03 #7 thing for a juvenile to be admitted, but look at these recent figures and remember these
00:01:08 #8 are only confirmed addicts who have come to the attention of federal authorities. How
00:01:14 #9 many others are still only occasional users of marijuana or heroin, morphine or in some
00:01:20 #10 cases sleeping pills? It's pretty hard to estimate. But there's one sure thing.
00:01:26 #11 is going to stay an occasional user very long.
00:01:30 #12 This is one game nobody beats.
00:01:32 #13 If you use narcotics before long, you'll have the habit about the hardest in the world to
00:01:37 #14 break.
00:01:39 #15 And the dope addicts say, you're hooked.
00:01:42 #16 How does one become hooked?
00:01:45 #17 The simplest way to answer that is to talk to someone who has had the experience.
00:01:50 #18 This is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howard.
00:01:53 #19 They just got their teenage daughter back after a six month nightmare that even Edgar Allan
00:01:59 #20 Poe couldn't have improved on.
00:02:01 #21 Mrs. Howard agrees to let us talk to her daughter, Phyllis, when we explained that we could use
00:02:09 #22 her case to help others avoid the same mistakes.
00:02:17 #23 This is Phyllis that she looked six months ago, a senior in high school, pretty as
00:02:22 #24 a picture.
00:02:23 #25 Just recently she was released from the narcotic ward of the county jail in the custody
00:02:28 #26 of her parents.
00:02:30 #27 It's hard to believe that this girl is the same as the one in the picture, but it doesn't take long for the drug habit to make anyone over.
00:02:37 #28 Phyllis wasn't anxious to talk about her experiences with Dope, but she could see how her story might be used to help others, and she began to talk.
00:02:54 #29 I guess I knew about reefers. That's marijuana, ever since junior high. Some of the boys smoked them.
00:03:11 #30 The ones who couldn't get along, who were afraid of everything.
00:03:14 #31 You know, the ones with no backbone?
00:03:17 #32 My girlfriend Ann and I went around with Jim and Bob.
00:03:33 #33 They both smoked pop. That's jive talk for marijuana.
00:03:37 #34 And after a while Ann and I got so that we did too.
00:03:40 #35 It's funny what it does to you.
00:03:48 #36 Everything speeds up to a hundred miles an hour.
00:03:52 #37 You think you're real sharp and you laugh a lot.
00:03:56 #38 You feel like you're the biggest person in the world.
00:04:00 #39 But I didn't feel so good when I came home high that night.
00:04:08 #40 My dad knew something was wrong, but he didn't know what.
00:04:12 #41 Mother was sure her daughter would never do anything bad.
00:04:16 #42 I'd been smoking pot for quite a while before I met Chuck.
00:04:20 #43 I guess he was what the newspapers called, a peddler.
00:04:23 #44 He supplied the kids at school with whatever they wanted.
00:04:26 #45 Most of them used reefers like us,
00:04:29 #46 but some liked stronger things.
00:04:32 #47 There was something intriguing and different about Chuck.
00:04:35 #48 I guess I appealed to him in some way too.
00:04:38 #49 Anyway, I found out later what it was about him.
00:04:41 #50 He had the heroin habit.
00:04:43 #51 He was hooked.
00:04:45 #52 Chuck and I started running around together
00:04:47 #53 and one night he asked me up to his place.
00:04:50 #54 I knew by now he started peddling after he got the habit
00:04:53 #55 so he could get H for himself.
00:04:55 #56 He needed a lot because he had a big habit.
00:04:59 #57 You know something about hypes?
00:05:01 #58 They're like a disease.
00:05:03 #59 They don't like to see anybody not using this stuff just because they do.
00:05:08 #60 Chuck finally talked me into using heroin.
00:05:11 #61 He said it would make him feel better.
00:05:14 #62 So I tried it.
00:05:16 #63 But I was going to be smart.
00:05:18 #64 Just take it or leave it.
00:05:20 #65 Nothing was going to happen to me.
00:05:22 #66 But before I knew it, I was hooked.
00:05:26 #67 Bad.
00:05:27 #68 I had a heroin habit as big as Chuck.
00:05:30 #69 I hadn't been home in weeks.
00:05:32 #70 Chuck and I were married, but it didn't matter very much.
00:05:35 #71 Nothing does, not when you're on age.
00:05:38 #72 All you think about day and night is dope.
00:05:40 #73 How much you've got, where to get more,
00:05:43 #74 what you'll do if you can't get it.
00:05:45 #75 And then, they'd got Chuck.
00:05:48 #76 They had to eventually, I knew that, but it didn't matter much.
00:05:51 #77 Nothing did accept age.
00:05:53 #78 All of a sudden it hit me.
00:05:55 #79 If Chuck had seen the cops coming,
00:05:57 #80 he might have got rid of our supply.
00:05:59 #81 That's what happened. Chuck got rid of everything. Probably in the garbage disposal.
00:06:15 #82 That's a favorite trick of hypes when they're going to be arrested.
00:06:19 #83 But it left me in an awful spot. I needed to fix bad.
00:06:24 #84 So bad I didn't care whether I lived or died. And I didn't know whether I'd ever get another cap.
00:06:37 #85 In the meantime, Phyllis' parents had nearly gone crazy. They hadn't seen or heard from their daughter in months.
00:06:43 #86 Mr. Howard checked every newspaper story
00:06:45 #87 that might by any remote chance have to do with Phyllis.
00:06:48 #88 But gradually their hopes died.
00:06:51 #89 They were almost convinced she was dead.
00:06:54 #90 But I wasn't dead.
00:06:59 #91 I tried once to kick off the habit,
00:07:01 #92 but I was too far gone.
00:07:03 #93 You know the police say find a heroin addict
00:07:05 #94 and you find a criminal,
00:07:07 #95 and that's just about it.
00:07:09 #96 If you're hooked bad,
00:07:10 #97 it cost about $30 a day for age.
00:07:13 #98 Boys get the money by stealing or swiping carpards,
00:07:16 #99 maybe by hold-ups.
00:07:18 #100 Girls take up street walking or do what I did,
00:07:21 #101 become peddlers themselves.
00:07:24 #102 When Chuck went to jail, I used his contacts
00:07:26 #103 and peddled dope myself.
00:07:28 #104 Sure, I knew it was wrong,
00:07:30 #105 but when you're hooked, you can't help yourself.
00:07:34 #106 They got me eventually, too, just like they did Chuck.
00:07:37 #107 And when I was arrested, I was almost glad.
00:07:40 #108 I told them I wanted help.
00:07:42 #109 I wanted to try and kick it off.
00:07:45 #110 It was horrible.
00:07:47 #111 Five days, and I didn't care whether I lived or died.
00:07:51 #112 It feels like your skin is being torn right off you,
00:07:54 #113 and then you ache all over and get sick, and you can't breathe.
00:07:57 #114 Your nose runs, and you have a high fever,
00:07:59 #115 and then you pass out, but when you wake up,
00:08:01 #116 it starts all over again.
00:08:03 #117 Five days.
00:08:05 #118 But I was lucky.
00:08:07 #119 I kicked it off, and I'd never used dope since.
00:08:10 #120 since. Maybe what happened to me will keep it from happening to somebody else.
00:08:15 #121 I don't even want to talk about it. And all I hope is that someday I can forget.
00:08:21 #122 Well that's Phyllis's story in the United States of America 20th century. Unbelievable
00:08:27 #123 isn't it that such things can happen. Phyllis's case is typical. Most teenagers
00:08:32 #124 start off with marijuana. Then they decide to see if heroin has any kick. It does.
00:08:37 #125 Sometimes it only takes a few days to find out they can't leave it alone.
00:08:41 #126 In order to get money to buy it, they turn to crime.
00:08:44 #127 And that's the story.
00:08:46 #128 There are practically no happy endings when you fool with drugs.
00:08:49 #129 Doctors say restoring an addict to normal life is about the toughest thing in medicine.
00:08:55 #130 Well, what's the answer?
00:08:57 #131 Enforcement? Yes, that's one of them, certainly.
00:09:00 #132 In the Far East, a few years back, they were lining up dope peddlers and shooting them in the back of the head.
00:09:05 #133 But it didn't stop addiction. It just made it harder for victims to get the stuff.
00:09:10 #134 No, the answer is a simple one. Just use your head. Leave narcotics absolutely alone.
00:09:18 #135 Remember what happened to Phyllis and others like her.
00:09:20 #136 Talk it over with your parents or school counselors, somebody you have confidence in.
00:09:25 #137 Some say the Reds are promoting dope traffic in the United States to undermine national morale.
00:09:30 #138 They did it in China a few years back.
00:09:32 #139 It's certainly true that the increased use of narcotics plays right into their hands.
00:09:37 #140 But why not show everybody, including ourselves, that young American men and women
00:09:42 #141 have too much intelligence to make such a stupid, gas-late, tragic mistake?
00:09:47 #142 Let's make tomorrow's headlines read like this.