Drugs
- Total barbarity: Mexican cartel dumps 49 torsos along highway
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in an escalating series of horrific mass killings among warring drug gangs here. Some were in plastic garbage bags, ... (Crime, Drugs, Mexico, War On Drugs, Washington Post) ...
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- 'Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids' by Bleddyn Butcher
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of The Triffids in 1989, we don’t follow the full horrific road to his death in 1999 – drugs are not the prime ...
The Monthly - John Kinsella - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- An end to the war on drugs?
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An end to the war on drugs? " ... to be an immovable subservience has come gradually, but the immediate cause is drugs. " ... (Drugs, Latin America, War On Drugs, New York Review of Books) ...
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- The Camorra never sleeps
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The Camorra never sleeps " For years before they caught him, the Italian police had no idea that Paolo Di Lauro was one of Naples's most powerful crime bosses, running a drug and counterfeit-goods empire - and responsible for a peace his turf ...
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- All Frocked Up
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(April 2012, The Nation Reviewed, Drugs, Fashion industry, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Platypus) ...
The Monthly - Catherine Ford - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Children’s Lib
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indifference, abandonment and even infanticide. In Victorian England infants might have been drugged ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- As Robert Was Saying
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after an allergic reaction to an emergency room drug. When Dessaix repeats, “I don’t really get ...
The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Honest Broker: Scientists and Politics. Roger Pielke Jr
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and food and drug safety, just to name a few. At this Lowy Lecture, Professor in Environmental ...
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- A Southeast Asian murder mystery
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by a medieval-style drug lord with a few dozen hill tribe gunmen." ...
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- Ways and Means
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Ways and Means “Many people engage in dubious experimentation in their youth. Some get involved with intravenous drugs. Others sleep with problematic men. A few tattoo their faces. I, for my part, went on a spree when I was nineteen of cooking ...
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- Glenn Sutherland
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made pregnant, but also there is a real likelihood of being infected with HIV/AIDS and drug ...
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- New drugs and new ways to think about them. Olivia Carter
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Adelaide Festival of Ideas 5726066 Whether drugs are being used for medication, enhancement or pure ... health, increase the powers of our mind, or simply make life more fun? Drug companies around the world ...
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- Daily Aspirin is Not For Everyone
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Daily Aspirin is Not For Everyone “Over all, for every 162 people who took aspirin, the drug prevented one nonfatal heart attack, but caused about two serious bleeding episodes.” ...
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- The great debate that no-one's talking about
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The great debate that no-one's talking about "I was counting off in my mind the politicians who have confessed, as I had, to taking drugs. Bill Clinton in 1992 was not the first but remains the funniest: 'I didn't inhale.' ...
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- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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abroad and of terrorists, organised criminals, drug dealers and pornographers at home. ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
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“When Patrick got into drugs, I can’t tell you how many times I bailed him out, hauled him up ... the police and the drug deals. Lost all my illusions pretty quick.” He glugs down another stubbie. ... (December 2011 - January 2012, Summer Reading, Australian Literature, Drugs, Fiction, Labor Party, ...
The Monthly - Janette Turner ... - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Politics of News
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want to change drug laws, tax the rich effectively, give the poor health care, hold the US to account ...
The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- From the Chrysalis
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In the “… rage, drugs, disaffection and racial fury”, he saw only a “trap”: Following ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Life Not Lived
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understand what he was saying. He seemed drunk or drugged at breakfast time. We met for lunch and I realised ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- New malaria vaccine could save millions of children's lives
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New malaria vaccine could save millions of children's lives "The vaccine has been in development for two decades – the brainchild of scientists at the UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline, which has promised to sell it at no more than a fraction over ...
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- A Quiet Anniversary
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to the success was the willingness of marginalised high-risk groups (intravenous drug users, gay men and sex ... infection rate among injecting drug users is 20% compared to our 1%.) By 1980 an estimated 300,000 ... third trimester, and her safely born child was medicated with the AZT drug for the first six weeks ...
The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-11-30 12:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Line of Appeal
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his arrest for drugs in 1999 seeing him sentenced two years later to seven years in prison ... drug money allegedly remain buried beneath the streets of Richmond. There is little evidence ... corruption within the Victoria Police drug squad in 1999 that led to his undoing. Three of the four ...
The Monthly - Jack Marx - 2011-10-06 13:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- When the Centre Cannot Hold
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the last energies of the flower-power generation were disintegrating into drug-addled squalor. Didion ...
The Monthly - Inga Clendinnen - 2011-11-04 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Pharmageddon: How America got hooked on killer prescription drugs
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prescription drugs "It's an American catastrophe that has been dubbed pharmageddon, though it rarely pierces the public consciousness. The White House last month said the abuse of prescription drugs had become the US's fastest-growing drug problem." ...
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- Prescribing Behaviour
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and illness) are classified as emotionally and/or behaviourally disordered. The majority are on drug regimes ... these potent drugs?” “They’re not given a choice, are they? They’ve all been kicked out of the mainstream – ... activity, but I take her point). Donna has read the standard drug printouts given in pharmacies, and feels ...
The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-10-06 12:40 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
