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...Heroin: A little taste of history...
...Again, plenty of opportunities to manufacture or grow your own stuff, but nowhere to buy it straight from a dealer. Also lots of paeans to the wondrous effects of heroin, most dating back to the 19th century, when opium was all the rage, and when kids were given heroin in the form of cough syrup. You can also read horrific addiction stories by people who've fallen in love with heroin and lived to tell about it. Support groups for addicts abound as well, as do contact numbers for needle exchange centers...
...Perhaps the dearth of opportunities to buy heroin online is directly traceable to the spectacular popularity and widespread availability of Oxycontin, an even more addictive opiate painkiller which, until very recently, was barely regulated...
...Bradby's nimble crime novel The Master of Rain (Bantam Press; 479 pages) sinks readers into the sullied lives of China's colonial nabobs, leading us through the brothels, country clubs, crime labs, opium dens and dance halls of 1920s Shanghai?where "you can get heroin on room service in all the best hotels" and every building along the Bund is "a projection of American or European power...
...Several passages reflect Cobain's well-documented heroin addiction and bouts of depression (he committed suicide in 1994). Others - like a huffy list of band rules - reveal the surprising ambition of an artist who popularized a genre - grunge - that scorned popular success. - reported by Andrea Sachs