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Search results for "opiate" ...
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People of the Opiate: Burma's Dictatorship
The article exposes the workings of Burma's new narco-dictatorship, which has incorporated the booming drug trade into the permanent economy of the country. The relationship between some of the world's biggest kingpins and the Burmese dictatorship - and the use of the drug trade by the rulers to stay in power - is documented. The article brings to light the terrible implications of the junta's marriage to the drug trade for the Burmese people, the American public and the world at large. (Dec. 16, 1996)
Tags: Kean Bernstein People of the opiate: Burma's dictatorship of drugs Contest entry Heroin CIA 9 pgs.
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No title (id: 13022)
New Times investigates Cindy McCain, wife of U.S. Senator John McCain, and finds that she had stolen prescription drugs, from a medical-aid charity she heads, and that she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions. When this story was first leaked, Senator McCain called upon his attorneys to deviate attention from a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Tom Gosinski, a man whom his wife fired. New Times finds the Senator was involved with many questionable activities, supposedly to to detract from the questions of Mrs. McCain's drug addiction. (Sept. 1 - 7, 1994)
Tags: Silverman Voas Opiate for the Mrs. Government Courts 6 pgs.
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Big business, big controversy
Houston Chronicle series reports on the effect of formerly government-run methadone clinics being privatized; finds that privatization has opened the heroin and opiate addiction treatment drug to the black market.
Tags: Drugs; public health; methadone; heroin
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A political opiate
Harper's Magazine essay maintains that George Bush's War on Drugs is a boondoggle which betrays America's best principles.
Tags: drugs; george bush; war on drugs
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No title (id: 4257)
Discover article focuses on the abuse of synthetic opiates--designer drugs--among doctors, August 1986.
Tags: None