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After six months of self-experimentation, Dan says he finally found a concoction that enabled him to kick his habit, but to test it further he became addicted to heroin--and found his brew cured him of that as well. It was a muddy-brown syrup, later named Heantos, made from the leaves, roots and stems of 13 plants and a splash of alcohol. After he announced his breakthrough in 1989, Dan was immediately besieged by addicts. Since then, he says, some 4,000 patients have been treated, and most of them have been cured...
...funding a study of Heantos' effectiveness , which will be overseen by the Johns Hopkins medical center. The brew will be analyzed at U.S. labs, and patients using it in Vietnam will be closely monitored. If Dan's elixir is proved effective, it may one day help the world's heroin addicts kick their deadly habit...
Called "internal body carriers" by the Drug Enforcement Administration, mules can carry up to one kilo of cocaine or heroin in their intestines. Before ingesting the drugs, they fast for several days, then swallow cooking oil for lubrication. Next, the oblong packets are placed in their esophagus with pliers and shoved down their throat. If a condom rips or is corroded by stomach acid during a long flight delay, the drugs burn, slowly, through the internal organs. On arrival the mules are taken to a hotel room by gang members and given large doses of laxative. "The most I have...
CHARGED. AMORET POWELL, 24; with first-degree murder, after her heroin-laced breast milk allegedly led to her seven-week-old daughter's death from oxygen deprivation; in Tucson, Ariz. The baby's father was also charged...
...Allen Ginsberg; after a heart attack; in Lawrence, Kans. Burrough's groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch, first published in Paris in 1959, was both praised as a work of genius and denounced as incomprehensible garbage and pornography. His life was as extreme as the experimental fiction he pioneered, involving alcohol, heroin, homosexuality, a celebrated obscenity trial in Boston and, in 1951, his accidental killing of his wife while shooting a glass off the top of her head. In his last years, he became a recurring pop icon, with cameos in movies and even a Nike...