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The ABCs of Heroin

First-person accounts of drug use usually follow a predictable template: experimentation, followed by dependency, capped by the inevitable crash and a tortuous path to redemption. But author Ann Marlowe's new book "How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z" breaks those conventions. As this penetrating interview from the groovy new website "Chickstars" points out, there's little of the "conventional" heroin addict about Ms. Marlowe. A well-heeled, white Wall Street achiever throughout her period of dependency, she resists the usual pigeonholes we apply to hard drug users. The next best thing to reading her fascinating memoir may be hearing her discuss it in this thoughtful, probing profile.

Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:11:05 -0800