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	These Drug Addicts Cure One Another
		An addict at the hospital had taught him to inject himself, so for a time he was able to recapture the mood at will.
		Addicts are not outstandingly gregarious, and when all the excuses were in only three--a house painter named Charlie, a barber named Henry and a waiter we'll call George--were on hand for the first meeting.
		Since then a few addicts have found a way back from the nightmare alleys of addiction to a normal life which may seem humdrum enough at times, but which when lost, then regained, is found to be a glory.
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	heroin Resource Center - heroin addiction
		Thanks to Corsican Mafia connections in heroin addicts the former French colony of Vietnam, the operation everclear heroin girl was able to forge new alliances with underworld forces there, and with triad gangs and organised crime figures in Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York City and Sydney.
		The half-life of these antagonists is usually much shorter than that of the opiate drugs they are used to block, so the antagonist usually has to be re-administered heroin help multiple times until the opiate has been metabolized by the body.
		Opiates are strong central nervous system depressants, but regular users heroin addicted babies develop physiological tolerance allowing gradually increased dosages.
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	Supplying heroin legally to addicts
		Addicts naturally tended to gravitate to these generous physicians, and a patient receiving more than he really needed might be tempted to share his excess with a friend, or even to sell a part of it.
		He at first sent youthful addicts to a state hospital to be "cured," but when he saw them promptly relapse, be concluded that cure was impossible and added these young addicts to his list for opiate prescriptions.
		But surely the substantial proportion of addicts maintained on legal opiates by their physicians was one of the factors which made heroin peddling unprofitable and contributed to the gradual disappearance of the fl market.
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	Heroin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		All opiates are converted by the human liver into the identical molecule with varying degrees of concentration in the blood stream.
		Also, though unpleasant, opiate withdrawal seldom has the potential to be fatal, whereas complications related to withdrawal from benzodiazepines, barbiturates and alcohol (such as seizures, cardiac arrest, and delirium tremens) can prove hazardous and potentially fatal.
		Opiates are strong central nervous system depressants, but regular users develop physiological tolerance allowing gradually increased dosages.
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	More Info on heroin - - herion - - heron
		True overdoses are rare because the LD for a person already addicted is prohibitively high, to the point that there is no general medical consensus on where to place it.
		Several studies done in the 1920s gave addicts doses of 1,600–1,800 mg of heroin in one sitting, and no adverse effects were reported.
		However, it is important to note that benzodiazepine use may also lead to a dependence, and many opiate addicts also abuse other central nervous system depressants including benzodiazepines and barbituates.
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	PERCEPTIONS OF DRUG CONTROL PROBLEMS AND POLICIES:
		The primary aim of treatment in the 1 980s was "to improve addicts' physical and social well being, and to help them function in society in a more stable way" in order to reduce the harm of drug taking both for individual drug takers and the community as a whole.
		By late 1981, it was estimated that 5,000 individuals or one in 3 of the addict population were receiving methadone (1,300 in detoxification programmes, 1,600 on a maintenance programme, and the remainder through family doctors or general hospital).
		This practice of prescribing drug substitutes to addicts was known as the British System of Containment and, until the mid-1970s when drug use in England began to increase rapidly, was generally regarded as highly successful in limiting the spread of drug use (29).
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	Famous Heroin Addicts - Famous Drug Addicts - addict.94hours.org
		This page features a list of celebrities who have been in the news in regards to their struggles with chemical dependency.
		This list of famous and celebrity addicts is by no means comprehensive...
		addicts during the first few years of the 1960s had also contributed to the explosion.
	addict.94hours.org /famous-drug-addicts/famous-heroin-addicts.html (346 words)

	Heroin Essays and Articles at eNotes
		The list of famous junkies is not limited to rock stars; the actor Robert Downey Jr.
		The latest treatment for heroin addiction—Rapid Opiate Detoxification—allows a physician to anesthetize the addict so that he or she is unconscious during the most painful period of withdrawal.
		A more traditional approach to the treatment of heroin addiction is to replace the use of heroin with the use of methadone, another opiate, but one which does not have the same dangerous side effects as heroin and allows the user to live a relatively normal life.
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	Famous Heroin Addicts - Famous Drug Addicts - www.addict.sadface.org
		One famous example is the pioneering surgeon William Halsted, who led a...
		By 1925 there were and estimated 200,000 heroin addicts in the country.
		patients who are the rump of 27 heroin addicts who were started on injectable methadone in 1977 prescribing of injectable heroin is perhaps the most famous characteristic of the The surprising truth about heroin and addiction.
	www.addict.sadface.org /famous-drug-addicts/famous-heroin-addicts.html (314 words)

	Executive Director's Column: Addiction: from pathology to promise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It was the famous lawyer's first interview since his son died of a drug overdose.
		Even if one refuses to accept that addicts are born predisposed, it has been confirmed that using drugs addictively changes the brain.
		Similarly, the disease model of addiction seems to suggest addiction equals biology, that addict's mind is a victims of her biology.
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	Neuroscience for Kids - Heroin
		The discovery of opiate receptors in the brain raised the question as to why neurons would have such receptors.
		Two years later, scientists found the answer: the brain manufactures its own opiates known as "endorphins." Endorphins are always in the brain, but they are released in greater amounts when people and animals are in pain or under stress.
		Naltrexone is an opiate receptor blocker that is used to treat addiction to heroin.
	faculty.washington.edu /~chudler/hero.html (1138 words)

	The Relationship between Research and Drug Policy in the United States - Discussion Paper No. 44
		Zinberg concluded from a comparative analysis of American and British heroin addicts in the late 1960s that the differences he found between the two groups were «attributable to their different social settings—that is, to the differing social and legal attitudes toward heroin in the two countries (68)».
		Following in-depth interviews with heroin addicts in the 1940s, Lindesmith argued that there was a cognitive side to heroin addiction: users had first to feel withdrawal symptoms, recognise them as such, and decide to take more heroin to relieve them before they became addicted.
		Like their most famous representative, historian Alfred McCoy, these authors contend that recent American drug «epidemics» are due to CIA complicity with foreign drug producers and traffickers, and they denounce the war on drugs as a fraud.
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	[CTRL] [8] Scarlet and the Beast - A History of the War Between
		This famous cartoon, reproduced here, dates back to the 1839 Opium War, and shows a British military man shoving opium down the throat of a Chinaman.(3) British Merchants of the Earth The vehicle by which London shipped her drugs to China and elsewhere around the world was founded in 1600.
		In 1729 China outlawed the sale of opium; the penalty was death by strangulation.(25) By imperial edict China closed its ports to "free trade" in 1729 in an attempt to curtail the flow of England's disastrous drug traffic.
		The quotas assigned beyond that required for medical use referred, of course, to the opium needed to supply the massive addict population in British colonies and spheres of influence where opium was unregulated.
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	Recovery From Addiction Without God
		The toll is enormous in terms of human lives and misery for the addicted and their families, as well as the innocent victims of the addicts’ actions (criminal behavior, traffic and workplace accidents, etc.).
		Over time, many recovering addicts in AA simply come to "follow suit," and within their AA rooms state that they have "surrendered." There are so many cliched phrases in AA that one questions the extent to which each member seriously considers his or her recovery in terms of the AA-required personal spiritual development.
		Attaining physical sobriety is a biological problem that is centered around the addicted individual’s acceptance of the biological basis of his or her disease and the subsequent development of sobriety as the most important priority in one’s life.
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	kurt cobain
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		In the journals, Cobain talked about the ups and downs of life on the road, made lists of what music he was enjoying, and often scribbed down lyric ideas for future reference.
		Many feel that Cobain's contributions to music history have permanently changed the landscape of popular music, marking him as one of the most influential songwriters in music history — even if that was never his intention.
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	Austin Heroin Addiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Heroin - Privacy Heroin Image:Heroin1.jpg Heroin (C21H23NO5 -- diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, junk, horse, or smack) is a white crystalline alkaloid opiate, derived from morphine by acetylation.
		List of famous opiate addicts - The following is a list of notable personalities who have been or are believed to have been addicted to heroin (or other opiates including prescription painkillers or tranquilizers) at some point during their lives.
		The focus of these clinics is the elimination of heroin use by the replacement of heroin addiction with methadone.
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	Famous Heroin Addicts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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		addicts famous people with drug addiction famous singers that died of drug addictions famous...
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	HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
		Aristotle received much of his own training from the famous philosopher Plato, but disagreed with Plato's belief that one could achieve a full understanding of anything by thinking about it.
		Did the famous little Albert experiment where he conditioned a baby to fear a white rat (?) by pairing it with a loud, obnoxious noise.
		He was his own subject and over a period of six years, carefully noting how many trials it took to memorize a list of words using nonsense syllables (to eliminate the effect of prior learning.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Renee_Michalski/histofpsylect.html (1987 words)

	Opiate of the Masses
		Massachusetts tops the nation’s list for use of illegal use of drugs and as well as for the highest percentage of young addicts.
		Heroin addicts entering drug-rehabilitation are usually put on methadone, an opiate like heroin, while they undergo treatment.
		In New Jersey, which does not have a clean-needle exchange program, heroin addicts’ use of dirty needles has revived the debate about whether helping to stop the spread of HIV and hepatitis through such programs is worth the risk that they'll merely encourage illegal drug use.
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	Amazon.com: Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: Thomas De Quincey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		He gives fits of lucidity to his story, in the form of making a point, only to derail it into some meaningless anecdote or philosophical pondering that leaves you wondering what his original point was to begin with.
		The sum of his story is he began taking opium to alleviate the pain from a stomach malady and through increased use and increasing dosage became an addict.
		However, much of the physical effects of opium abuse related by the author are common to the hell of chemical abuse suffered by today's addict.
	www.amazon.com /Confessions-English-Opium-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486287424 (2261 words)

	Methadone Today (October 2000), Vol. V, No. X
		The famous Dr. Gooberman is awaiting trial for the deaths of those poor six people.
		If the drug testing clinic does ask you to provide a list of prescription medications, this may indicate that your employer will only be informed of "positive" drug test results caused by illicit rather than prescribed drug use (another reason to include methadone on such a list).
		Some drug testing clinics will only ask for a list of prescription drugs if a "positive" drug test result occurs - again, this may indicate that your employer will only be informed of "positive" drug test results caused by illicit drug use and they will not find out that you are on methadone.
	www.methadonetoday.org /v5_n10.htm (3382 words)

	Nihilism
		Although he argues passionately that individuals could endure its corrosive effects, his most famous works betray the extraordinary difficulty he faced building a convincing case.
		And incidentally sculpture and pictures of Buddha intend to portray the bliss attributed to the state of nirvana - facetiously akin to a somniferous drug high or the original nihilistic opiate.
		The secondary effect of this is that the national population doesn't know which faith to choose, and although religion can't be eliminated it can be easily replaced.
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	List of known opiate addicts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iggy Pop, Iggy and the Stooges frontman; also had a successful solo career, and is considered by many to be the prototypical punk rocker [84]
		Elvis Presley, singer and guitarist, addicted to Dilaudid during his later years (deceased) [85]
		Judee Sill, addicted to heroin before her career, but died of a cocaine overdose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_opiate_addicts (995 words)

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