{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " [...]", "start": 0.0, "stop": 16.04, "id": 0}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 18.14, "stop": 19.34, "id": 1}, {"text": " If anyone had ever told me a few years ago that we would ever read headlines like", "start": 19.34, "stop": 33.58, "id": 2}, {"text": " these in American newspapers, I would have called him crazy.", "start": 33.58, "stop": 36.72, "id": 3}, {"text": " Yet here we are reading them.", "start": 37.18, "stop": 38.74, "id": 4}, {"text": " In the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America, hundreds and", "start": 39.04, "stop": 44.18, "id": 5}, {"text": " hundreds of teenage boys and girls are becoming hopeless dope addicts every year.", "start": 44.18, "stop": 48.68, "id": 6}, {"text": " It's fantastic, it's unbelievable, and it's terrible, but it's true.", "start": 49.38, "stop": 53.68, "id": 7}, {"text": " The government maintains two hospitals just to treat drug addicts at", "start": 54.88, "stop": 59.3, "id": 8}, {"text": " Lexington, Kentucky and Fort Worth, Texas.", "start": 59.3, "stop": 61.86, "id": 9}, {"text": " It used to be a rare thing for a juvenile to be admitted, but look at these", "start": 62.16, "stop": 66.66, "id": 10}, {"text": " recent figures, and remember, these are only confirmed addicts who have come to", "start": 66.66, "stop": 71.92, "id": 11}, {"text": " the attention of federal authorities.", "start": 71.92, "stop": 73.48, "id": 12}, {"text": " How many others are still only occasional users of marijuana or heroin, morphine,", "start": 74.32, "stop": 79.6, "id": 13}, {"text": " or in some cases, sleeping pills? It's pretty hard to estimate.", "start": 79.82, "stop": 83.28, "id": 14}, {"text": " But there's one sure thing. Nobody is going to stay an occasional user very long.", "start": 83.76, "stop": 89.98, "id": 15}, {"text": " This is one game nobody beats.", "start": 90.36, "stop": 91.98, "id": 16}, {"text": " If you use narcotics before long, you'll have the habit, about the", "start": 92.62, "stop": 96.7, "id": 17}, {"text": " hardest in the world to break.", "start": 96.7, "stop": 98.28, "id": 18}, {"text": " And the dope addicts say, you're hooked.", "start": 99.06, "stop": 101.98, "id": 19}, {"text": " Well, how does one become hooked? The simplest way to answer that is to talk to", "start": 103.36, "stop": 107.82, "id": 20}, {"text": " someone who has had the experience.", "start": 107.82, "stop": 109.4, "id": 21}, {"text": " This is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howard. They just got their teenage", "start": 110.24, "stop": 114.76, "id": 22}, {"text": " daughter back after a six-month nightmare that even Edgar Allan", "start": 114.76, "stop": 119.06, "id": 23}, {"text": " Poe couldn't have improved on.", "start": 119.06, "stop": 120.72, "id": 24}, {"text": " Mrs. Howard agrees to let us talk to her daughter, Phyllis, when we explain that", "start": 122.7, "stop": 128.78, "id": 25}, {"text": " we could use her case to help others avoid the same mistakes.", "start": 128.78, "stop": 132.5, "id": 26}, {"text": " This is Phyllis as she looked six months ago, a senior in high school, pretty as", "start": 137.26, "stop": 142.12, "id": 27}, {"text": " a picture. Just recently, she was released from the narcotic ward of the county", "start": 142.12, "stop": 147.12, "id": 28}, {"text": " jail in the custody of her parents.", "start": 147.12, "stop": 149.54, "id": 29}, {"text": " It's hard to believe that this girl is the same as the one in the picture, but it", "start": 150.66, "stop": 154.92, "id": 30}, {"text": " doesn't take long for the drug habit to make anyone over.", "start": 154.92, "stop": 157.86, "id": 31}, {"text": " Phyllis wasn't anxious to talk about her experiences with dope, but she could see", "start": 165.76, "stop": 170.36, "id": 32}, {"text": " how her story might be used to help others, and she began to talk.", "start": 170.36, "stop": 174.52, "id": 33}, {"text": " I guess I knew about reefers. That's marijuana, ever since junior high. Some of", "start": 184.78, "stop": 190.3, "id": 34}, {"text": " the boys smoked them, the ones who couldn't get along who were afraid of", "start": 190.3, "stop": 193.48, "id": 35}, {"text": " everything. You know, the ones with no backbone?", "start": 193.48, "stop": 196.8, "id": 36}, {"text": " In high school, my girlfriend, Ann, and I went around with Jim and Bob.", "start": 205.76, "stop": 209.4, "id": 37}, {"text": " They both smoked pop. That's jive talk for marijuana. And after a while, Ann", "start": 212.46, "stop": 218.42, "id": 38}, {"text": " and I got so that we did, too.", "start": 218.42, "stop": 219.98, "id": 39}, {"text": " It's funny what it does to you. Everything speeds up to 100 miles an hour.", "start": 226.3, "stop": 231.7, "id": 40}, {"text": " You think you're real sharp, and you laugh a lot. You feel like you're the", "start": 233.42, "stop": 238.26, "id": 41}, {"text": " biggest person in the world.", "start": 238.26, "stop": 240.2, "id": 42}, {"text": " But I didn't feel so good when I came home high that night. My dad knew something", "start": 244.92, "stop": 250.16, "id": 43}, {"text": " was wrong, but he didn't know what. Mother was sure her", "start": 250.16, "stop": 254.0, "id": 44}, {"text": " daughter would never do anything bad.", "start": 254.0, "stop": 255.66, "id": 45}, {"text": " I'd been smoking pop for quite a while before I met Chuck. I guess he was what", "start": 256.56, "stop": 261.38, "id": 46}, {"text": " the newspapers called a peddler. He supplied the kids at school with whatever", "start": 261.38, "stop": 266.18, "id": 47}, {"text": " they wanted. Most of them used reefers like us, but some liked stronger things.", "start": 266.18, "stop": 271.62, "id": 48}, {"text": " There was something intriguing and different about Chuck. I guess I appealed to", "start": 272.72, "stop": 277.04, "id": 49}, {"text": " him in some way, too. Anyway, I found out later what it was about him. He had the", "start": 277.04, "stop": 282.66, "id": 50}, {"text": " heroin habit. He was hooked.", "start": 282.66, "stop": 284.96, "id": 51}, {"text": " Chuck and I started running around together, and one night he asked me up to his", "start": 285.74, "stop": 289.38, "id": 52}, {"text": " place. I knew by now he started peddling after he got the habit so he could get H", "start": 289.38, "stop": 294.52, "id": 53}, {"text": " for himself. He needed a lot because he had a big habit. You know something about", "start": 294.52, "stop": 300.62, "id": 54}, {"text": " hypes? They're like a disease. They don't like to see anybody not using this", "start": 300.62, "stop": 305.84, "id": 55}, {"text": " stuff just because they do. Chuck finally talked me into using heroin. He said it", "start": 305.84, "stop": 311.88, "id": 56}, {"text": " would make him feel better. So I tried it.", "start": 311.88, "stop": 315.58, "id": 57}, {"text": " But I was going to be smart. Just take it or leave it. Nothing was going to", "start": 316.4, "stop": 321.4, "id": 58}, {"text": " happen to me. But before I knew it, I was hooked. Bad. I had a heroin", "start": 321.4, "stop": 328.36, "id": 59}, {"text": " habit as big as Chuck. I hadn't been home in weeks. Chuck and I were married, but", "start": 328.36, "stop": 333.74, "id": 60}, {"text": " it didn't matter very much. Nothing does. Not when you're on H. All you think", "start": 333.74, "stop": 338.66, "id": 61}, {"text": " about day and night is dope. How much you've got, where to get", "start": 338.66, "stop": 342.48, "id": 62}, {"text": " more, what you'll do if you can't get it.", "start": 342.48, "stop": 344.84, "id": 63}, {"text": " And then they got Chuck. They had to eventually I knew that, but it didn't matter", "start": 345.66, "stop": 350.58, "id": 64}, {"text": " much. Nothing did except H. All of a sudden it hit me. If Chuck had seen the cops", "start": 350.58, "stop": 356.76, "id": 65}, {"text": " coming, he might have got rid of our supply.", "start": 356.76, "stop": 358.86, "id": 66}, {"text": " That's what happened. Chuck got rid of everything. Probably in the garbage", "start": 369.34, "stop": 373.98, "id": 67}, {"text": " disposal. That's a favorite trick of hypes when they're going to be arrested. But", "start": 373.98, "stop": 379.56, "id": 68}, {"text": " it left me in an awful spot. I needed to fix bad. So bad I didn't care whether I", "start": 379.56, "stop": 385.56, "id": 69}, {"text": " lived or died. And I didn't know whether I'd ever get enough of that.", "start": 385.56, "stop": 388.84, "id": 70}, {"text": " [...] go to the camp.", "start": 388.84, "stop": 389.26, "id": 71}, {"text": " In the meantime, Phyllis's parents had nearly gone crazy.", "start": 393.14, "stop": 399.9, "id": 72}, {"text": " They hadn't seen or heard from their daughter in months. Mr. Howard checked every", "start": 400.36, "stop": 404.66, "id": 73}, {"text": " newspaper story that might by any remote chance have to do with Phyllis. But", "start": 404.66, "stop": 409.46, "id": 74}, {"text": " gradually their hopes died. They were almost convinced she was dead.", "start": 409.46, "stop": 414.14, "id": 75}, {"text": " But I wasn't dead. I tried once to kick off the habit, but I was too far gone.", "start": 417.54, "stop": 422.84, "id": 76}, {"text": " You know, the police say find a heroin addict and you find a criminal. And that's", "start": 423.7, "stop": 428.4, "id": 77}, {"text": " just about it. If you're hooked bad, it costs about $30 a day for each. Boys get", "start": 428.4, "stop": 434.3, "id": 78}, {"text": " the money by stealing or swiping car parts. Maybe by holdups. Girls take up", "start": 434.3, "stop": 439.82, "id": 79}, {"text": " street walking or do what I did. Become peddlers themselves.", "start": 439.82, "stop": 443.76, "id": 80}, {"text": " When Chuck went to jail, I used his contacts and peddled dope myself. Sure, I", "start": 444.56, "stop": 449.76, "id": 81}, {"text": " knew it was wrong, but when you're hooked, you can't help yourself. They got me", "start": 449.76, "stop": 455.4, "id": 82}, {"text": " eventually too, just like they did Chuck. And when I was arrested, I was almost", "start": 455.4, "stop": 459.94, "id": 83}, {"text": " glad. I told them I wanted help. I wanted to try and kick it off. It was", "start": 459.94, "stop": 466.7, "id": 84}, {"text": " horrible. Five days. And I didn't care whether I lived or", "start": 466.7, "stop": 471.48, "id": 85}, {"text": " died. It feels like your skin is getting worse.", "start": 471.48, "stop": 473.74, "id": 86}, {"text": " Your skin is being torn right off you. And then you ache all over and get sick", "start": 473.74, "stop": 476.7, "id": 87}, {"text": " and you can't breathe. Your nose runs and you have a high fever and then you pass", "start": 476.7, "stop": 480.94, "id": 88}, {"text": " out. But when you wake up, it starts all over again. Five days. But I was lucky.", "start": 480.94, "stop": 487.46, "id": 89}, {"text": " I kicked it off. And I've never used dope since. Maybe what happened to me will", "start": 487.9, "stop": 492.78, "id": 90}, {"text": " keep it from happening to somebody else. Or I don't even want to talk about it.", "start": 492.78, "stop": 497.22, "id": 91}, {"text": " And all I hope is that someday I can forget it.", "start": 497.42, "stop": 500.7, "id": 92}, {"text": " Well, that's Phyllis's story in the United States of America, 20th century.", "start": 501.28, "stop": 506.46, "id": 93}, {"text": " Unbelievable, isn't it, that such things can happen. Phyllis's case is typical.", "start": 507.0, "stop": 511.4, "id": 94}, {"text": " Most teenagers start off with marijuana. Then they decide to see if heroin has", "start": 511.78, "stop": 515.88, "id": 95}, {"text": " any cake. It does. Sometimes it only takes a few days to find out they can't", "start": 515.88, "stop": 520.6, "id": 96}, {"text": " leave it alone. In order to get money to buy it, they turn to crime. And that's", "start": 520.6, "stop": 525.3, "id": 97}, {"text": " the story. There are practically no happy endings when you fool with drugs.", "start": 525.3, "stop": 529.46, "id": 98}, {"text": " Doctors say restoring an addict to normal life is about the toughest thing in", "start": 529.84, "stop": 534.14, "id": 99}, {"text": " medicine. Well, what's the answer? Enforcement? Yes, that's one of them,", "start": 534.14, "stop": 539.48, "id": 100}, {"text": " certainly. In the Far East a few years back, they were lining up dope peddlers", "start": 539.5, "stop": 543.76, "id": 101}, {"text": " and shooting them in the back of the head. But it didn't stop addiction. It just", "start": 543.76, "stop": 548.38, "id": 102}, {"text": " made it harder for victims to get the stuff. No, the answer is a simple one. Just", "start": 548.38, "stop": 553.86, "id": 103}, {"text": " use your head. Leave narcotics absolutely alone.", "start": 553.86, "stop": 557.88, "id": 104}, {"text": " Remember what happened to Phyllis and others like her. Talk it over with your", "start": 558.16, "stop": 561.92, "id": 105}, {"text": " parents or school counselors, somebody you have confidence in. Some say the Reds", "start": 561.92, "stop": 566.6, "id": 106}, {"text": " are promoting dope traffic in the United States to undermine national morale.", "start": 566.6, "stop": 570.36, "id": 107}, {"text": " They did it in China a few years back. It's certainly true that the increased use", "start": 570.94, "stop": 575.66, "id": 108}, {"text": " of narcotics plays right into their hands.", "start": 575.66, "stop": 577.82, "id": 109}, {"text": " But why not show everybody, including ourselves, that young American men and", "start": 578.12, "stop": 583.12, "id": 110}, {"text": " women have too much intelligence to make such a stupid, ghastly, tragic mistake?", "start": 583.12, "stop": 588.26, "id": 111}, {"text": " Let's make tomorrow's headlines read like this.", "start": 589.06, "stop": 592.0, "id": 112}]}