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...several warehouses in New York City linked to Teng and his cronies that were stocked with some $28 million worth of paraphernalia, much of it hauled there from Seattle and Los Angeles. The stash was so vast -- 107 million vials, 1.9 million crack pipes, 178 million polyethylene bags for heroin -- that 25 Customs agents took three days just to count and load the items into eleven 50-ft.-long tractor trailers. "That was more paraphernalia than we'd ever even conceived of running into," says Richard Mercier, chief of the New York Customs office. "Previous seizures had been only...
...heart attacks; we do orthopedic fractures; we deliver babies; we do it all," explains Peter Moyer, chief of emergency medicine at Boston City Hospital. "I think of us as the urban GP." Tonight Moyer's trauma team is summoned to save a man who has overdosed on heroin. They cut his clothes away, thump on his chest and connect an IV tube, all the while talking to him, trying to keep him awake. "Do you want to die?" resident Stuart Kessler yells at the man, who is feebly pushing the doctors away. The man shakes his head. "Good," says Kessler...
...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...
...Smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease in the United States," said Philip Huang of the Harvard Public Health Students for Social Responsibility. "Every year 390,000 people die from smoking. It is responsible for more deaths a year than AIDS, crack, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire and murder combined...
...same parallel can be seen in the drug crisis. Alfred McCoy wrote in the The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in the early 1970s that the U.S. Government was not actively stemming the import of illegal stimulants from Southeast Asia into the U.S. because it wished to cultivate the political support of local anti-Communist leaders, many of whom had financial interests in drug exports...