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...drugs. They know they are not capable of surpassing records without resorting to such drugs. It would be much healthier to forget about world records and let athletes at each Olympic Games compete for records that would be valid only for the Games of that year. Ralferd C. Freytag Victoria, Canada...
...latest national figures on heroin use won't be out until November, but in Victoria, where fatal overdose figures slumped from 359 to 49 between 1999 and 2001, deaths last year crept back up to 100. So could heroin make a comeback? Many argue it never really went away. Andrew Murray, executive director of Victoria's Youth Substance Abuse Service, which provides treatment, housing and support to about 2,000 young people each year, says heroin abuse remains common among young people with histories of abuse and violence, who use the drug to numb their emotions. When there...
...litter the ground. Tregear and his colleagues help some of them into treatment, despite long waiting lists, and then back to school or work. In the past six months, the outreach team has counted about 70 new users in the area. Tregear agrees with predictions that overdose deaths in Victoria will rise again this year, perhaps...
That number of heroin deaths was last seen in Victoria in 1995, and Paul Dietze, head of the epidemiology unit at Turning Point, one of Australia's leading drug and alcohol agencies, says it's difficult to know where heroin use is heading: "We might be just in the trough of a cycle at the moment." Pina Bampi could easily have been one of those statistics, and many of the 33-year-old's friends still use the drug every day. Bampi used heroin for seven years, during which time she traveled to Israel for rapid detoxification. Three years...
Luxury quotient: If $10,000 crocodile handbags are on your shopping list, then maybe Stroll and Chou can turn Asprey into the next Hermes. Asprey is, after all, the place where Queen Victoria once bought her Christmas presents...