The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 5

Hr wtfwOUnT lnwftti hhh! -v7 4r v'y9' "ffirtfniiiwr ilm nm' Is iMiiiti )rt ufe tun -2 pax flTismi Jl a I i Mon July 3 1972 5-A nr I VICTI Vould-Be Cure Can Turn Into Deadly Poison FRMItirS Y1SITIMG'' DISfiEY WORLD Stay on the Cape 2 blocks from Ocean by Spaceport and com-mute in one hour Fine surf Modern Large Furnished 2 BEDROOM APTS AIRCOND Full Kitchens Qny hum IT fK Fish Swim Shop Golf Tennis Soil Attractions Write CDLPH INN ImCM Cm Cnuiti Wit I IMl'OH II Its shooting Quaaludes a er When Miss Holt found him later in the day after going out for a while Padilla was in a coma in the bathroom of scene wrapped in one body Early in the morning he told his landlady Linda Holt that he needed some cocaine the strongest up of all He had also talked before about tfft IMPORT WOES gONSTMTU LOWER C0MF4RI UR OUkin AMI PRICE HfORE YOU UV IMYWHFRt1 the house at 95 NE 168th St He had gotten some cocaine He had also taken some methadone The combination killed him 1)1111 DELIGHTFULLY COMFORTABLE WHITf mucHTruii MASTIC worn I cowtwAiiii VIRUS PLASTIC WOVEN RATTAN 13 tfk Ah i A jejX3 shirt a pair of pink pants and some blue shoes He borrowed a bicycle to go see a girl When Nickson got to her house at about 330 pm he appeared drunk rowdy He started cursing loudly Then he went inside and went to sleep on the sofa The girl and some friends went shopping When they came back they tried to wake Nickson up They They called the police Nickson was dead The autopsy showed that Nickson had died as a result of too much alcohol mixed with too much methadone mixed with too much heroin The formal name for it is and alcohol A ARMANDO ANGEL Padilla had been using heroin for only about four months his family said when he enrolled in the Reed Memorial Hospital clinic two years ago By March 18 of this year Padillo 23 was what is classified as a poly-drug user Ups downs the whole drug IE But By WILLIAM AM LONG Herald Stall Writer Howard arms told a lot about him The tattoo with the ball and chain The needle marks in the crook of the elbow For nine of his 31 years Howard Steinberg had been an addict In jail out of jail 42 times On dope off dope Now he was on a methadone program taking 130 milligrams a day to stave off his heroin habit That night he came home appearing drunk He He was on methadone JOHN PARTRIDGE 17 was a high school dropout from the middle-class New York City suburb of Nyack NY His father was a Conservative Party county legislator who like hippies or drugs There is no official record that Partridge ever used drugs before he and his friend Eric Gureckis 18 got hold of some me-thaqualone and methadone The two who hitchhiked here from New York to visit sister and brother-in-law apparently got the drugs at the beach That night they acted very strange SALLY RAY Rothenburg was 34 divorced the mother of two children People who knew her said she use drugs But she had this terrible migraine headache during the Thanksgiving weekend She was one of Stephen houseguests up in Golden Beach And the only thing in the house for pam were the three bottles of methadone that Solomon an addict on a maintenance program had gotten from Dr Ben Sheppard to tide him over the weekend She drank about 50 milligrams to kill the pain It also killed her And Howard Steinberg And John Partridge and Eric Gureckis THEY THE junkie the two teenage experimenters and the woman with the headache are four of the dozen people who have died during the past two years as spin-off casualties from the use of methadone to combat heroin addiction Methadone a heroin substitute is what physicians describe as a central nervous system depressant Street people call it a downer When you take too much of any one downer or too many of several kinds as is often the case the tranqui-lizing calming effect is so severe that your body simply slows to a halt Death results ONA body slowed to a halt June 18 1970 after she locked the bathroom door and locked Hands Va Her real name was Carolyn Ford And after two girls dragged her into the parking lot of North Miami General Hospital on May 22 1971 Gypsy became the youngest drug victim She had spent Friday In Coconut Grove A guy named Gerry picked her up and said take her to a party On the way he smoked a couple of marijuana cigarets and asked her if she wanted some No she said been doing downers methadone and Tuinal When she got to the party at 14850 Dixie Highway she seem stoned but she said she want anything right then The group sent out for some hamburgers and French fries Later the people shot up with heroin For Gypsy It was too much At 10 am the next day she was found on the couch white foam coming out of her mouth The autopsy showed four needle marks in her arm The cause of death: intravenous narcotism" EUGENE mother said she know that her son 23 was using drugs A couple of days before however she had found a small brown packet while cleaning up Her son grabbed it anway On Sunday Oct 17 1971 Gray went to his house at 8321 NW 14th PI to watch the pro football game on his color TV When the game was over his cousin Mclver Golden went outside to wash his car He came back in and found Gray staggering Gray said shot up with heroin Golden and a friend walked him around and put him to bed At 9:50 pm they tried to wake Gray up They He was dead An autopsy showed he had injected both heroin and methadone THE PRESSURES were getting to Ronald David Lott Society in general or at least straight society An upcoming trial on burglary charges He was one of Dr Ben patients on a methadone program but he had said he was thinking of going back to drugs On Nov 17 1971 he had other problems too His head ached His legs were cramped He told his father he was going to bed First though he ate something Milk ice cream and cake Then he went to sleep At 2:35 am his father Milton Lott got up to get a drink of water On the dining room table was an empty bottle that had contained take-home methadone dose His father peeked in the bedroom His son breathing He was dead In system were the remnants of a sleeping pill his methadone dose and some heroin The pressures had finally got to Ronald David Lott ALBERT NICKSON 18 got dressed Jan 14 in a blue Aa in flSTER "Thrust-Back Collar TOILET TANK BALL Amtnco's largest Stffer The efficient Water Matter instantly etapt the flow of water after eoch fluthmg 75f AT HARDWARE STORES Enjoy 3 meals a day with in Wrong herself in Presumably it was then that she took the fatal dose of methadone Ona 34-year life had not been happy A drug addict for nine years she spent six months drying out in the treatment center at Lexington Ky She had been divorced The scars on her wrist testified to a suicide attempt At 1 am a friend broke down the door and put Ona Rosenblum to bed She never woke up JEFFREY SAMUEL Gelber had all the markings of a when he died Oct 8 1970 A friend Barry Weiss-man said Gelber and he were watching television at apartment 1345 NE 111th St when Gelber got up without saying anything and prepared a shot of methadone He injected it into his right arm In the apartment was a bottle of methadone tablets 13 whole ones and two that appeared to have been crushed into pieces so that they could be dissolved and injected A PRIVATE physician had prescribed the methadone The bottle said as There were also other downers Numorphan (a pain killer prescribed for him by two dentists) Quaaludes (sleeping pills) And some marijuana Gelber a 24-year-old Army veteran apparently had been using drugs for about three months when he shot up with the methadone His breathing got short He collapsed Weissman rushed him to North Miami General Hospital Gelber was dead LEROY HALL was only 19 Yet his cause of death was listed a and chronic His breathing got short At 6 am on the morning of May 17 1971 Leroy Hall Jr went to a apartment on Miami Beach to The friend said he had never seen the youth during the three months he had known him The last he was seen alive was at 8:30 am sitting in a living room chair and wearing only his blue jeans At 3 pm when friends tried to wake him up they discovered that Hall was dead an autopsy showed both methadone and a morphine derivative (the most common of which is heroin) in his body In his jeans police found a methadone tablet and a three-gram Tuinal GYPSY WAS 14 a runaway from the poorer section of the model town of Reston announced a two-day postponement The delay had been requested by Americans here who claim to represent Fischer Dr Euwe pointed out that it was an extraordinary position to put him in because none of the Americans have any written authorization from Fischer to represent him Dr Euwe also dispatched an Icelandic chess player and friend of to New York to try and persuade the reluctant giant to get here by noon Tuesday but Dr Euwe was not optimistic THINK there will be no play at he said recognize all we are doing The American challenger has refused to sign the match agreement and he is not even personally committed to playing in Reykjavik The problems appear to be psychological pathological and financial wants to come but he is afraid he will said a Yugoslav grand master the psychological reason HE HAS A pathological fear and hatred of the press which so far has caused him to miss four planes to Iceland And he wants the players to get a 30 per cent cut of the gate in addition to the $125000 dollars combined purse But one thing appeared absolutely certain: if Bobby Fischer fails to show up by noon Tuesday it is all over Absent Fischer Gets A Tuesday Deadline By JOE ALEX MORRIS JR Miami Herald-Lot Angelet Times Wire REYKJAVIK Iceland The ballad of Bobby Fischer has already been written getting some notable assists nee from an incredible cast of characters mostly Americans but no one can challenge his top billing in turning what should have been an epic-an epo- F1SCHER making match into chal disaster The 29-year-old American challenger for the world chess crown is playing no-show His tactics have made 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