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...Well, not quite. Situated in Burma's Shan state, less than a mile from the Chinese border, Mongla is ruled by a brutal heroin trafficker and has an unsavory reputation as a freewheeling center for gambling and prostitution. Yet, curiously, the Burmese regime is promoting it as a model town. Why? To find out, I hired a car and driver and set out for Mongla?the town that drugs built...
...This Faustian deal was one of several the junta made with the opium warlords within its borders. They have helped Burma become one of the world's largest opium producers, and the source of at least half the heroin sold in the U.S. Soon Lin was opening new heroin-smuggling routes in Southeast Asia to get his product to the U.S. and Australia. The U.S. State Department identified Lin and his Wa allies as key players in the heroin and methamphetamines trade. A single refinery belonging to the Lin syndicate could manufacture anything up to 2,000 tons of pure...
...supposed eradication of drugs in the Mongla region. The museum resembled a temple, with a seven-tiered spire, gold-painted finials and lots of architectural twiddly bits. Inside were all the exhibits one would expect: photos of dead junkies; photos of generals wagging their chins over packets of heroin; photos of the same heroin (one assumed) going up in flames at various drug-burning ceremonies...
...known there, as for crack cocaine. The town has had five documented overdoses, but police captain John Doran believes the number may be higher. "We're a suburb, so you see a lot of middle-class families--folks who'd never dream of taking a needleful of heroin," he says. The same is true in Pulaski, Va. (pop. 10,000), where OxyContin has overtaken cocaine and marijuana. Property crime is up 50%, says police chief Eric Montgomery. Four overdoses have been confirmed so far by police, who suspect more than have been reported. More alarming, says U.S. Attorney Bob Crouch...
...given week, her husband reportedly told investigators, the couple supplemented their Social Security by selling drug addicts $8,000 worth of the tiny white tablets that are chewed or smashed to remove the time-release coating, then snorted or injected, generating a high as intoxicating as that of heroin. So popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian...