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...into Do It Yourself Happy Homes. It had originally been the drug of choice for long-haul truck and bus drivers, but during the go-go '90s, it evolved into the working man's and woman's preferred intoxicant, gradually becoming more popular among Thailand's underclass than heroin and eventually replacing that opiate as the leading drug produced in the notorious Golden Triangle. While methamphetamines had previously been sold either in powdered or crystalline form, new labs in Burma and northern Thailand commoditized the methamphetamine business by pressing little tablets of the substance that now retail for about...
...about it, other than to make the most of ecstasy's unexpected side effect the couple of times a month he went clubbing. He also kept quiet about his chance discovery, since, in Britain as in many countries, taking the drug is a criminal offense as serious as using heroin or crack cocaine...
...findings were grim: 20-year-olds who?d had DARE classes were no less likely to have smoked marijuana or cigarettes, drunk alcohol, used "illicit" drugs like cocaine or heroin, or caved in to peer pressure than kids who?d never been exposed to DARE. But that wasn?t all. "Surprisingly," the article states, "DARE status in the sixth grade was negatively related to self-esteem at age 20, indicating that individuals who were exposed to DARE in the sixth grade had lower levels of self-esteem 10 years later." Another study, performed at the University of Illinois, suggests some...
...courtroom, his eyes dull, his posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again: That's right. Back to the drug treatment center. Oh, yeah...
...drug that is prescribed as a pain killer, adequately distinguished between the dangers of abusing pain medications and the benefits of them when taken under appropriate supervision [DRUGS, Jan. 8]. Because of OxyContin's time-release formulation, patients with pain who take the drug do not experience the heroin-like euphoria you mentioned. Wrong perceptions about addiction--and mislabeling legitimate patients as abusers--can result in the unnecessary withholding of opioid medications from patients in need. You stated that Purdue Pharma is facing pressure from prosecutors to minimize forged prescriptions. In fact, the company took the initiative six months...