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Posted by FoM on July 30, 2001 at 07:15:57 PT By Susan Taylor Martin, Times Senior Correspondent Source: St. Petersburg Times 
Even most non-drug users know that heroin is usually injected while marijuana is almost always smoked. So when the "expert" from the United Nations Drug Control Program talked on CNN about "shooting up" marijuana, one group of viewers could hardly believe its ears. "I was sitting there with some young people who fell laughing off their couch," says Janhuib Blans of Jellinek, an organization involved in drug counseling and treatment. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #2 posted by Doug on July 30, 2001 at 09:57:52 PT |
| While I'm not an expert on the use of heroin, I was taken aback by the first paragraph of this article on the benefits of telling the truth in education. Their sterotype is of "junkies" injecting heroin into their veins, but especially now that the street variety is stronger, many users snort or smoke it, and there is also a way of injecting heroin into the muscles. It's only because of illegality and high prices that injection, an extremely dangereous method of use, is popular. I also think it would have been appropriate in this article to indicate the number of lies in American drug "education"; most of them are a lot less obvious that the one about injecting marijuana. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on July 30, 2001 at 08:09:39 PT:
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| Amerikan policy does not work, and exacerbates every facet of drug use. We need to use the types of approaches being pioneered with notable success. Give peace a chance! [ Post Comment ] |
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