Heroin

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My beautiful, drug-addicted boy
David Sheff recounts how he lost his son to meth and the long, agonizing struggle to get him back.
It's easy for soldiers to score heroin in Afghanistan
Simultaneously stressed and bored, U.S. soldiers are turning to the widely available drug for a quick escape.
Get your cheap cocaine at the globalization candy store
The efficiencies delivered by global markets aren't limited to cheap TVs and blue jeans. Heroin and coke are also priced to move.
Nude awakening
It was a hot Chicago summer. My stripper year. My heroin year. I had a new college degree and nothing made sense. I was having the best time of my life.
Pregnant on death row
A Vietnamese inmate gets pregnant while in solitary confinement. Will she still die by firing squad, or will her pregnancy save her life?
The needle and the damage undone
Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
The rise and fall of Kate Moss
The skeletal model's coke-fueled plunge from grace has exposed some ugly truths about the fashion industry -- not least its world-class hypocrisy.
Iraq and the damage done
Where the war on terrorism now meets the war on drugs.
Letters
Readers respond to "Canada's Safe Haven for Junkies" by Mark Follman, and "Black Copters Over Oregon" by Bill Donahue.
Canada's safe haven for junkies
Vancouver hopes to save hundreds of lives by opening street clinics where heroin addicts can shoot up safely. But the White House is accusing Canada of going AWOL from its war on drugs.
I hate my girlfriend's boyfriend
We love each other, but she won't leave her abusive, jealous, e-mail-snooping man.
Heroin sheik
In celebration of National Poetry Month, musician and "Basketball Diaries" author Jim Carroll reads poems published in the Paris Review.
Suckers from strangers
Sri Lankan pedophiles are jailed for using heroin lollipops to lure victims.
"It's a punk movie"
Director Darren Aronofsky talks about why his junkie movie, "Requiem for a Dream," really isn't a junkie movie and about writing the script for the next "Batman."
31 Ejaculations: No. 22
It's so much like coming, you don't have to come anymore.
Happy Fourth of July, soldier
Independence Day is a national holiday, but personal associations -- from heroism to heroin -- are what give it meaning.
Greil Marcus: Real Life Rock Top 10
The "Seinfeld" stamp, "Careless Love," Wire's arty punk revival and more.
U.S. drug policy: Are we doing the right thing?
The White House responds to Michael Massing's critique of the war on drugs, and Massing replies.
Nipple-ring blues
A smuggler's body piercing set off airport metal detectors recently in Turkey.
Methadone Rx
Your local pharmacy may be the next place to treat heroin addicts.
Germany OKs drug-injection rooms
Heroin users can shoot up off the streets, unless the U.N. has its way.
Going Dutch
Can America learn from the Netherlands' drug policy of tolerance and ambiguity?
The elephant in the room
Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs.
"My War Gone By, I Miss It So" by Anthony Loyd
A jaded British correspondent feeds his smack habit in Bosnia and Chechnya.
Is being hooked a choice?
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
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