Heroin

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  • Is being hooked a choice?

    A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
    By Andy Dehnart January 10, 2000

  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
    By Susan Emerling October 29, 1999

  • Museum of substance

    From opium-addicted housewives to cocaine cough syrup, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traces the history of illegal drugs in America.
    By Ron Dicker September 28, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Don't let junkie turn misspent youth into profit; Brazil's "raceless" society; what's the truth about Waco?
    Letters to the Editor September 3, 1999

  • Rag vs. rag

    Skeptic magazine should take a cue from its splashier, diametric opposite, Fate. Plus: Jerry Stahl on heroin -- again; yet another writer "discovers" eBay.
    By Jenn Shreve August 27, 1999

  • Harvard and heroin

    I coasted to an Ivy League degree as a drug addict, but forever damaged the bond between mother and son.
    By Seth Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • My son, the junkie

    I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself.
    By Wendy Mnookin August 27, 1999

  • Sharp & flats

    Nick Cave and the Birthday Party adored the sound of piercing feedback, physical exhaustion and collapse.
    By Dave Clifford July 21, 1999

  • A dime bag for the schoolgirl

    I thought escaping Vassar to make Harlem drug runs meant I could be in the elite world, but not of it.
    By Janet Mcdonald February 24, 1999

  • Permanent Boredom

    The latest in the junkie-flick genre has plenty of low low's, but unfortunately few highs. Janelle Brown reviews 'Permanent Midnight.'
    By Janelle Brown September 18, 1998

  • Noble words, empty deeds

    The war on drugs will fail so long as the victims don't get help.
    By Lonny Shavelson June 15, 1998

  • Media Circus

    Reporters were apparently too stoned to question two hopelessly flawed studies "proving" that marijuana is a gateway to heroin.
    By Cynthia Cotts August 18, 1997

  • Don't get off the elephant!

    Exploring the hill tribes and opium fields of northern Thailand on foot sounded like a great adventure. It wasn't.
    By Karl Taro Greenfeld July 22, 1997

  • Media Circus

    Britain's press mourns the dazzling talents of Gianni Versace the man who gave them celebrity Page Three girls.
    By Andrew Brown July 16, 1997

  • The Awful Truth

    Heroin is Cute
    By Cintra Wilson February 11, 1997

  • The Awful Truth

    The Beautiful and the Damned: Spiritualists of the Lower East Side.
    By Cintra Wilson March 23, 1996

  • Heart of Darkness

    Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him. Too deep.
    By Gary Kamiya December 2, 1995
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