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...doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high-level sports...
...like a growing number of athletes, Michel attained such elation the wrong way. He eventually realized that performance-enhancing substances had ensnared him in the trap of addiction to even worse drugs. Last year Michel, who is 25, underwent several weeks of specialized detoxification treatment for cocaine and heroin addiction developed during his racing career. "I didn't realize just how big it had become," he says, "until a doctor warned me if I didn't get help soon, I'd be dead within months...
...problem. A 1999 report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes, according to some estimates. And that's just...
...region was on its way down. It has now become a continent-wide crisis, one that is creating millions of addicts and threatening to cripple societies barely on the mend from an economic cataclysm and still wrestling with huge numbers of addicts hooked on more traditional drugs like heroin. The numbers reveal a region with an increasingly lethal need for speed: in Japan, between 1995 and 1999, the amount of methamphetamine seized, a pretty good indicator of usage patterns, increased from 85 kg to nearly 2,000 kg?about 65 million hits. The story is the same in South Korea...
...While the refining can be volatile, it is not terribly complex, which means that meth labs are an ideal family business for industrious Asians, who set them up in converted bathrooms, farmhouses or even the family hearth. Unlike ecstasy, which requires sophisticated chemical and pharmaceutical knowledge to manufacture, or heroin, where the base product, the poppy plant, is a vulnerable crop, there are no limits to how much meth can be made or who can make...