Word: drought
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...Murray to the coaching squad, Harvard now boasts a teaching staff that has three national championships and two Herrmann Trophy—soccer’s equivalent of the Heisman trophy—winners between them. With the team looking to end a two-year-long NCAA tournament drought, the experienced winners on the sideline could be the right compliment to the on-field talent...
...inner suburb of Melbourne, when supply of the drug simply dried up. "People were so panicked, so worried about getting sick (from withdrawal)," Bampi says. "It lasted for three or four months, but to us that was forever." Though heroin is more available now, the ripple effects of the drought continue to be felt, most noticeably in national overdose-death rates, which have plunged since 2000. In New South Wales alone, according to National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre data released this month, there was a 67% fall in opiate-related deaths between 1999 and 2002, while the number...
...killed in the rush of people selling out there," he says. Bampi's friends now ring contacts to organize deals, arranging to buy in cars, parks or busy shops. "It might take a little bit longer, but within half an hour you'll have something," says Bampi. When the drought temporarily starved them of a daily fix, Bampi and her friends began searching for other ways to get stoned. Bampi started using benzodiazepines, sedatives usually prescribed for insomnia and anxiety, topping up whatever heroin she could find: "I used to mix them with smack, take five pills with...
While amphetamine use was growing well before 2000, the post-drought switch to different drugs has many health professionals and drug agencies deeply worried. Amphetamine abuse in particular has severe side effects, including aggression and psychosis. No one knows the full extent of the post-drought migration from heroin to other illicit drugs. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has examined this trend, but its long-awaited report has yet to be made public. Treatment admissions suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants...
Last year, the University left behind a five-year drought of second- and third-place finishes to take the highest spot in the magazine’s “National Universities” category. This year Harvard remains on top—and like last year, it shares that honor with Princeton, which also received an overall score of 100. The tied Ivies bested such perennial competitors as Yale (with 99 points), the University of Pennsylvania (95), and Duke, MIT and Stanford, all tied at 94 points...