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...Magaloff, director of the French Olympic Committee's anti-doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high-level sports...
...studies have indicated the scale of the problem. A 1999 report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes, according...
...when forced to leave the athletic élite. "When you remove an athlete from that obsessive, glorified lifestyle and place him in the larger, more diffuse ?real world,' he's going to feel lost, anonymous and often severely depressed," says Gérard Cagni, director of the sedap drug clinic-one of two in France with in-patient programs tailored for athletes. When such a competitor also has a history of doping and drug use, the risk of addiction-and an unwillingness to recognize it as a severe problem-can complicate matters. "The continued use of drugs...
During a month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
...weeps quietly as her young daughter lifts a cloth covering the dead boy and kisses his forehead. Then Hawaneen and his clansmen set off at a swift pace to the rocky cemetery. "My two other children are also sick, but what's the point of taking them to the clinic? They can't help," grieves Hawaneen, letting the empty aspirin strip fall from between his fingers into the wind...