Trying to find the original source that claimed that either Ricca or Accardo banned drugs. Writers like Carl Sifakis claim that Ricca's son was a drug addict so he put a ban on narcotics. The oldest source I could find for this was Bill Roemer in one of his books. This was repeated in many other books, including Gus Russo's "The Outfit." But does this story go back to before Roemer or did he start it?
For the record, Paul Ricca had two sons: Anthony De Lucia and Paul Jr. Anthony lived from 1929 to 1993, and Paul Jr was born in 1938 and is still alive. I haven't seen anything referring to either as a drug addict or being arrested for drugs.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=146153218Another story is from William Brashler, author of a book on Giancana called "The Don." According to Brashler, Guzik and Humphreys prodded Accardo to ban narcotics.
