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After 1970, with Turkish production of the narcotic curtailed by U.S. pressure, the major dealers in the Triangle began large-scale exports. They had discovered that they could reap huge profits by selling their heroin-which they refine from the morphine derivative of raw opium-to the burgeoning markets among...
In New York City alone last year, there were more than 800 infants born of addicts. Many hundreds of others were born elsewhere, though there is no firm national count because some hospitals do not report these cases. Without proper care, doctors estimate, more than 50% of such cases can...
Nonskiers cannot comprehend why otherwise rational people rise at dawn in order to buy a $10 ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding...
To really stop the flow of hard drugs, the U.S. must somehow attack the source of supply, a crucial role that has fallen to the State Department. The U.S. outlawed heroin in 1924, becoming one of the first nations to do so. Since then, narcotics have been the target of...
Usually, everyone ends up with a piece of everything. As a result, the agencies complain that they are spending more and more of their time just consulting with one another. In the field of drug control there is the Division of Narcotic Drugs, the U.N. Fund for the Secretariat of...