Article September 2, 1972 Issue

The Hotline

"Should I try marijuana?" "Will you help me get off of 'junk'?" "I wish I were dead."

Elizabeth Mitchell was a senior in high school when she helped a group of adults organize a hotline and drop-in center for her quiet, respectable little Massachusetts town, which woke up one day to find it was the home of one of the biggest drug trading places on the Eastern Seaboard. "It used to be known as a speed town," she explained. "Now, I'd estimate that we have about sixty hard-core heroin addicts—and that's an awful lot for a town of only 15,000." ...

It was that first month on the hotline—just after high school graduation—that really got Liz Mitchell reinterested in Christian Science.

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