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With the wisdom of hindsight, Deepak Chopra recalls a conversation he had with Michael Jackson a few years ago. "He said there's something you can take that takes you to the valley of death and then takes you back," the best-selling author and physician tells TIME. "I hadn't the vaguest idea of what he was talking about. And then he quickly changed the subject." Now, says Chopra, "I see he was talking about propofol...
Researchers who are familiar with the drug were just as stunned. "No one would ever take this to sleep. No one would ever take this drug for insomnia," says Paul E. Wischmeyer, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, who co-authored a major 2007 study on propofol abuse. "Never, ever. It would be like using a shotgun to kill a small mouse...
...abusers dying from it. The small pool of non-professionals fare worse. "I've never found a non-medical person abusing this drug that has ever lived," says Wischmeyer. Propofol's potency leaves very little margin for mistakes. "The terrifying thing about this drug is that it might take your stress away, but if you take one or two cc's more, you stop breathing," says Wischmeyer. "This is not like Vicodin - take too much and you get a little high. With propofol, you might not survive...
...well the reason for the comments and the stares. "They drove us away," one of the children later said. "They hate us. We got the disease from our parents. It's not our fault." With the school balking and classrooms now mostly empty, Sister Bao thought it best to take the children back to the Mai Hoa Center where they live rather than endure more hurt. The center was the first AIDS hospice in Vietnam. But since the introduction of lifesaving antiretroviral medications, few come there to die anymore. The sanctuary-like setting, run by the Roman Catholic Church...
Nestled in the hills northeast of Athens, the once picturesque village of Grammatikos now sits in a charred and blackened wasteland. Goats rummage among burned plants, while weary and soot-covered residents take stock of the damage. Above, a steady stream of airplanes and helicopters ferry water from the sea to a nearby village, where the fire is still raging...