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A User's Guide to Modern Kicking

By AAN Staff
august 26, 2003  11:27 am
A User's Guide to Modern Kicking
Despite decades of multibillion-dollar efforts to flatten poppy fields, apprehend smugglers and disband drug rings, the world’s favorite opiate just keeps coming over the borders, purer and cheaper than ever. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, heroin has gained nearly half a million users in the past 10 years. Luckily, even while California’s drug and alcohol treatment programs are due to lose $11.5 million this year, medical practitioners, both establishment and alternative, are deepening their understanding of addiction — and broadening drug users’ options for getting clean. In this issue, LA Weekly writers look at everything from an African root bark and other new therapies to the economy of rehab in a issue dedicated to kicking and keeping clean.
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