He wanted Julia to be bored, not terrified and in danger—so he wrote her a prescription. “I stopped straightaway,” she said later to Ed Bradley of CBS’s 60 Minutes when they came to report on the Liverpool experiment. “I went back once just to see, and I was almost physically sick just to see these girls doing what I used to do.” Now she was working as a waitress, and able to be a mother to her little girl. As Julia pushed her daughter on a swing, Bradley asked her: “Without that prescription, where do you think you’d be today?” “I’d probably be dead by now,” she said. “I need heroin to live.”
