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...around 700 kg in 2000 alone. The historic shortage that followed, the report says, "provided the first opportunity in many decades to see whether supply and enforcement were in any way related." The link has been widely questioned: do busts make any difference on the street? Many illicit drug experts also argue that treatment is more effective than law enforcement efforts, and that attempts to push up the price by cutting supply may force addicts into more crime to fund their habit. But in what it claims is the first study of its kind, the ANU has found that...
...horrible, horrible," she says. "People are different when they use it - it does something to your mind." A decade ago at one clinic in Adelaide, 80% of 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...
...Australian authorities are counterattacking. A team of health experts, assembled by the national advocacy group Alzheimer's Australia and spearheaded by American dementia expert Zaven Khachaturian, will on Sept. 20 in Sydney present a "Vision Statement" that argues "there is no time to lose" and outlines a four-point plan for delaying the onset of dementia. If that goal sounds modest, there's cause to hope for more. "This is the best of times for Alzheimer's research," says group member Colin Masters, professor of pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse...
...have to be a fashion or design expert--or a multimillionaire, for that matter--to notice that some suggestion of luxury has invaded almost every aspect of our daily lives, whether it's an over-the-top diamond-encrusted crocodile Hermes handbag or an uber-designed stainless-steel trash can from Bed, Bath & Beyond. These days luxury is so prevalent in so many different industries that it may manifest itself in a multitude of ways, from the obvious opulence of a private jet to the sleek discretion of a minimal-style four-star restaurant. Some notions of luxury--the androgynous...
...through inventory and do math in my head, I'm going to get paid for it. I have no idea why so many women are into it, much as I can't figure out why they pay people to massage them and not have sex. So I got two expert shoppers, Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy, owners of Juicy Couture, to spend a full day with me in L.A. shopping. Which was fine with me, since TIME was paying...