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...almost anyone who walked past, and sales were made on footpaths with nonchalant ease. "It was the height of the madness," recalls Melbourne outreach worker Richard Tregear. The drug was everywhere, and as purity rose so did the risk of a fatal overdose. In Melbourne, paramedics like Lindsay Bent were frantic. During those "crazy couple of years," Bent says, it wasn't unusual to treat 18 overdoses in a day in the cbd alone. It's not like that now. When Bent last checked his team's supply of naloxone, which is used to reverse the effects of opiate overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smacking Down | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...patients were being treated for heroin; now just 30% are, while half are amphetamine users. University of Adelaide pharmacology and addictions expert Professor Jason White, who works with the clinic, says abuse of prescription opiates like morphine has also become more of a problem. In central Melbourne, where Lindsay Bent's paramedic team is being trained to handle newer drugs, heroin now appears sporadically, and quiet weeks are mixed with bad ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smacking Down | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...then shows a young man, his clothes soaked in blood, with what appear to be bullet wounds in his legs and arms. Another young man and a woman, also seemingly with bullet wounds, are also filmed. "I lost my flip-flop when I was running," the woman says. "I bent down to pick it up, and the bullet went through my basket and hit me." Va Char then films Mao and Chao Lee's mother, weeping. At the site of the alleged ambush, a girl is seen, dead in the bushes, her intestines spilling out through her dress. Forensic pathologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blackbird's Song | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by the shortsighted actions of a U.S. President bent on making war. Bastian Birkenhaeger Friedrichsdorf, Germany Olympian Heights The ideals of the Olympic games are certainly worthwhile: sportsmanship, athletic prowess and opportunities for people from many nations and cultures to meet [Aug. 30]. What's wrong is the goal of constantly setting new world records, on which most athletic competitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...sandy-haired, gap-toothed 6-year-old daughter got a pair of cleated black shoes and shin guards so that she could attend soccer camp this month, which she wants to do because her pal Charlie Hooley is going, and that is how the twig is bent around here. The dad has little to say about it. Fate is everything. Thanks to a dog that jumped on her when she was 3, she is terrified of dogs, and thus are we spared the curse of dog ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daughter Dearest | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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