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TIME accompanied Ho and his team from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) for two weeks earlier this year as he traveled from Kunming, the cosmopolitan capital of Yunnan province, where his drug-treatment and vaccine projects are based, to the remote border town of Ruili, where heavy heroin trafficking and a thriving sex trade create a perfect HIV breeding ground, to Beijing, for his meetings with party leaders, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Wu Yi. Everywhere Ho went, his mission was the same: to persuade Chinese officials to step up their modest anti-AIDS efforts...
...from punitive to forgiving. Drug use is incredibly nuanced and confusing - even alcohol required two constitutional amendments and a fight between "Tastes great" and "Less filling" that has never been adequately settled. Limbaugh used to portray all drugs as equal, whether they were painkillers or marijuana or heroin - which is not only stupid but also a really poor business plan if you're considering becoming a dealer. I had never tried marijuana until a friend left me some lovely brownies a few years ago, and not once since that experience have I been nervous about spiraling into harder drugs, unless...
...caf?s, noodle joints and bare-bulb fishermen's shacks outside the palace, many Maldivians tell a different story. Here the social indices that matter are one of the world's highest divorce rates and rampant heroin addiction indicated by 1,000 convicted dealers in a capital city of 86,000. Although everyone acknowledges tourism's success, many Maldivians?and international relief workers?charge that it has made multimillionaires of Gayoom's friends while official figures show that 42% of Maldivians earn less than $1 a day. And there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty...
...John Belushi biography "Wired," Bob Woodward asked Dan Aykroyd why he joined Belushi in shooting heroin. Because, came the reply, it makes you feel wonderful - that is, before it kills you. Why would anyone take a drug simply because it kills you? The potential consequences have to be considered a side effect, however likely and looming, to whatever pleasure the drug offers...
...Dublin, Ireland was a haven for drug traffickers. Pushers were everywhere, from schools to residential neighborhoods. Playgrounds were littered with used syringes and dirty spoons. Every day there were reports of kids as young as fifteen overdosing on heroin, while the drug lords responsible for these tragedies remained beyond the reach...