Word: opium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...
...Siegel, a research psychopharmacologist at the UCLA School of Medicine. In Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise (Dutton; $19.95), Siegel argues that the war is doomed because it is against man's own nature. His controversial contention: humanity's pursuit of happiness through chemicals -- whether ; caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, opium, marijuana or cocaine -- is a universal and inescapable fact of life...
...Reaction from drug czar William Bennett's newly created Office of National Drug Control Policy is equally cool. Says Dr. Herbert Kleber, the agency's deputy director: "I can only note that all previous attempts along this line have ended in disaster. Remember that morphine was used to treat opium addiction, and heroin was used to treat morphine addiction. If the drug Siegel envisions were too good, people would just want more...
...Nothing is more flexibly resilient than Chineseness," says Morris. Similar adaptability can be attributed to the first European and American merchants who were allowed to open factories and warehouses on the Guangzhou coast 150 years ago. The British eventually achieved dominance by dealing drugs, importing opium from India and selling it to mainland China. A pragmatic lot, the rulers of the Celestial Empire seem to have understood that the opiate of the people was opium...
...putting, together with planes and hotels, will cost less than seven days on a course at home. And many Westerners trek into the hills around Chiangmai to live for a few days with the local tribes, sleeping in huts and savoring , if only from a distance, the village opium...