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...beef stuff gets really old really fast, and thankfully, toward the middle of the album comes “A Baltimore Love Thing,” a creative and haunting track in which 50 personifies heroin and purrs to a female addict, “When we first met, I thought you’d never doubt me/ Now you tryin’ to leave me, you’ll never live without...
...told the audience about her childhood with teenage parents both addicted to heroin, but triumphantly exclaimed, “I can stand here on this stage and say that I’ve proven them all wrong...
Sometimes the poison that kills you can save you. At least that's the hope of Canadian researchers about to begin a one-year, $6.5 million clinical trial that will provide pharmaceutical-grade heroin under controlled conditions to nearly 90 addicts (a similar number will be given methadone). The study, which begins in Vancouver this week and then expands to Montreal and Toronto for similar trials, aims to end the most desperate addicts' dependence on prostitution and crime to pay for their habit. "We hypothesize they can stabilize their lives and get onto a better path," says Dr. Martin Schechter...
Some think it's the plan that needs a fix. Among them is the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), already rankled by a small supervised heroin-injection site in Vancouver and by Canada's plans to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. ONDCP policy analyst David Murray calls the prescription-heroin study a mistake. "There's a large moral-hazard question here about a government undertaking to become the official dispenser of addictive substances," Murray says. Even proponents of such schemes note the ethical land mines. "I don't think anyone is arguing that heroin...
...nabbed him. The episode shows just how far law and order have broken down in Naples. This part of town, along with the adjoining Scampia neighborhood, has become the center of the regional drug trade, supplying much of the Campania region and other parts of southern Italy with cocaine, heroin and other narcotics. Over the past two months, Scampia and Secondigliano have erupted into a combat zone as rivals within the Camorra battle for control. Di Lauro associates are believed responsible for the drive-by shooting late Saturday that killed a 21-year-old rival and wounded his 13-year...