Word: opiumeators
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...talks about people who perspire audibly; and he knows others who make opium out of the poppies sold by veterans...
...19th century. Throughout Historian Harvey Green's lively text, advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women of the period attest to an oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...
...represented just a fraction of the exports from the so-called Golden Crescent, an area spanning parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran that produces the lion's share of the world's heroin. The raw material for the drug is grown in 100,000 acres of opium-poppy fields, processed in local laboratories and smuggled out through Pakistan. The Golden Crescent accounts for as much as 90% of the heroin sold in Western Europe and more than half that sold...
DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma...
...West Germany arrested the Ayatullah's son-in-law, Sadegh Tabatabai, 39, upon his arrival in Düsseldorf two weeks ago. A "special ambassador," Tabatabai helped negotiate the release of the U.S. hostages in 1981. He was charged with illegal possession of 3.3 lbs. of raw opium...