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...person from Albany St. reported to CPD that a person's arms were hanging from under a toilet stall. Emergency response arrived and revived the person who had overdosed on heroin. Personnel was notified, and the victim was taken to Cambridge Community Hospital...

Author: By Danielle M. Beyer, Maria Ceballos, Rajae Merzoug, and Stephanie D. Mock, GDFDFGS | Title: Police Log | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...cars--for a Knievel-like stunt that sends the Shelby over a dozen or so autos on a bridge, and for the joy of showing young people stealing cars, then driving them recklessly around a crowded city. Why don't these kids do something less dangerous, like heroin? At least then they'd kill only themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Manufacturers at the time flaunted the legality of the drug, promoting it as lacking the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the addictive properties of coke and heroin. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was caught by surprise by the new drug not long after it had been embarrassed by the spread of crack. The administration quickly used new discretionary powers to outlaw MDMA, pointing to the private labs and club use as evidence of abuse. dea officials also cited rudimentary studies showing that ecstasy users had vomited and experienced blood-pressure fluctuations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is...A Pill?: The Science: The Lure Of Ecstasy | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...most common adulterants in such pills are aspirin, caffeine and other over-the-counters. (Contrary to lore, fake e virtually never contains heroin, which is not cost-effective in oral form.) But the most insidious adulterant--what all eight of the Oakland ravers took--is DXM (dextromethorphan), a cheap cough suppressant that causes hallucinations in the 130-mg dose usually found in fake e (13 times the amount in a dose of Robitussin). Because DXM inhibits sweating, it easily causes heatstroke. Another dangerous adulterant is PMA (paramethoxyamphetamine), an illegal drug that in May killed two Chicago-area teenagers who took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is...A Pill?: The Science: The Lure Of Ecstasy | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...them now. Moby says he tried smoking pot when he was 11 or 12 so he could hang out with the "cool kids," but that was pretty much the end of his experimentation. Says Moby: "I've never tried ecstasy, I've never tried cocaine, I've never tried heroin. I don't think there's anything ethically wrong with drug use, but the reason I stay away from it is that I value my brain too much. I don't want to trust my synapses to some stranger that I met in a nightclub. I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is...A Pill?: Rave New World | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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