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- LETTERS, Page 10Those '60s Highs
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- My husband and I were very moved by Walter Shapiro's
- thoughts in "Feeling Low over Old Highs" (ESSAY, Sept. 18). We
- too came of age in the '60s and didn't always resist the
- temptation to sample drugs. We wax nostalgic and think of it as
- a distant time with a different mind-set. Even though we look
- back with affection, those feelings are becoming less mellow.
- We have a son who will soon be a teenager. What do we tell him?
- There is no way to justify the drug use we took part in.
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- Lynne McGinnis Houston
-
- Shapiro remarked on how much easier it must be for parents
- to instruct their children about the dangers of drug use if they
- can honestly say they got through the '60s without drugs. As the
- mother of two sons in their early 20s, I'm sure I'm not the only
- parent of the '60s to tell you that this is no guarantee of
- having drug-free children. Our burden is just as great as that
- of any of the Woodstock alumni. Right now one son is in a Los
- Angeles County rehabilitation program; the other was able to
- conquer the problem with just the help of family and friends.
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- Elizabeth Wilson Lusk North El Monte, Calif.
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- As a 35-year-old baby boomer, I will no more take
- responsibility for drug abuse than a beer drinker would for
- rampant alcoholism. Have we learned nothing from like issues of
- the past? Simply banning things like alcohol and abortion
- creates additional problems.
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- Andy Bernstein New Brunswick, N.J.
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