Drugs

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Prime-time propaganda
How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report.
Washington script doctors
How the government rewrote an episode of the WB's "Smart Guy."
Is being hooked a choice?
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
Prescription for change
President Clinton proposes the regulation of online drug sales.
Orphans of managed care
Sickle cell patients are in the middle of a dilemma over the cost of effective drugs.
Flu be gone!
Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work?
Election coverage, gonzo-style
Alternative Vote 2000 brings the counterculture to election coverage. Plus: High Times turns 25; what happens if Amazon tanks?
Publisher halts George W. Bush bio
As J.H. Hatfield's credibility crumbles, St. Martin's Press stops distribution of his new book, which says the GOP front-runner was arrested on drug charges in 1972.
Is Hatfield the real McCoy?
Under attack, the author of a new George W. Bush bio lies low while its editor takes the hard questions -- and stands by the drug-arrest allegation.
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction
When an attempt to get tough with a whistleblower backfired in 1994, the McCain spin machine went into overdrive, and the candidate's wife confessed to problems the media was already poised to reveal.
White men can jump
When Baltimore, which is 65 percent black, chose a white as its next mayor, it marked a watershed event in the evolution of America's racial politics.
Pot pol
George W.'s Silicon Valley point man, Tim Draper, isn't quiet about legalizing marijuana.
Museum of substance
From opium-addicted housewives to cocaine cough syrup, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traces the history of illegal drugs in America.
The Teflon governor meets the national media
Bush is glib, none-too-smart and quick to anger, but reporters have yet to tell the truth about him.
Letters to the Editor
Is Paglia wrong about Waco? Plus: R.E.M. on "Automatic" pilot; Luddite gamers should quit moaning and start playing.
The real Bush drug scandal
Texas Gov. George W. Bush has presided over a crackdown on first-time drug offenders from poor neighborhoods like Houston's Third Ward Bottoms.
Bush won't have to testify in whistle-blower case
A Democratic judge rules Texas governor will not have to give a deposition in the so-called Formaldegate case.
The blame game
Bush's people are putting the Steve Forbes campaign on the defensive in the drug-use controversy.
Louder than words
George W. Bush, who refuses to answer questions about his own drug use, slashed drug rehabilitation programs for inmates while ushering in tougher sentencing laws.
Class will tell
The Bush cocaine controversy should encourage an overdue debate on why drug abuse among the rich is a "disease" while among the poor it is a "crime."
"A noble hypocrisy"
Conservatives grapple with George W.'s drug-rumor woes.
"Head On"
Using rough sex and rougher drugs to escape the marriage-mortgage trap.
Austin, we have a problem
What does his clumsy, evasive handling of rumors of cocaine use do to George W. Bush's much-heralded "electability"?
The great Arkansas railway mystery
Twelve years ago, two teenagers were murdered on a rural railroad track. Right-wing conspiracy theorists who blamed then-Gov. Bill Clinton for the killings have now lost a $600,000 libel suit in the case.
The big E
Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers.
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