Lord of the Golden Triangle

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Black Tar Heroin: "dark end"

"Of all the heroin in the world, this is the worst, it looks like shit, it is shit." And that tiny "gram" STICKS TO HIS FINGER... yukh!

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Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit

Addicted: a report on helplessness

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Heroin: das Beste High?
("They said heroin was the best high they had ever had"... antidrugs ad)



Geschichte einer Drogensuchtiger
An addict's story



Drogenpark
Needle park

Heroin on Eastenders

NICK COTTON'S DRUG HABIT
POOR DOT (HIS MOTHER): POOR NICK!



DOT CATCHES HER SON NICK STEALING FOR HEROIN



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2 "Kindly" Pete Beale the greengrocer finds Nick's stash



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FATEFUL HARVEST: AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM AND HEROIN TRADE

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2 of 8 RISE OF THE POPPY PROBLEM
(since 1973 when the King Mohammed Zahir Shah was deposed...)



3 of 8 U.S. ERADICATION PROGRAMMES



4 of 8 WAR AGAINST POPPY



5 of 8 HEROIN LAB BUST



6 of 8 CORRUPTION



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8 of 8 A GLOBAL PROBLEM

HOW HEROIN IS USED

BALTIMORE, EASTERN UNITED STATES, THE CITY WHERE ONE PERSON IN TEN IS A HEROIN ADDICT

101 East: Golden Triangle Drug Problem

2008: HEROIN and METHAMPHETAMINE ~ yaa-baa in the Golden Triangle border areas of Thailand, Burma/Myanmar and Laos

Christiane F ist zurück auf Drogen (2010)

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German
2010 news item from German TV: Christiane F, the woman whose life of child prostitution and heroin addiction inspired the famous book (1979) and film (1981) Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo... after a life travelling the world and running away and lapsing and relapsing... and losing custody of her son to child protective services in Amsterdam... is back on drugs in 2010.

Links:
Stern-magazin: Wie geht es mit Christiane F (2009)
Stern-magazin: 27 Jahren nach Christiane F (2005)

Sind wir eine gedopte Gesellschaft? Menschen bei Maischberger

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German

Sandra Maischberger presents discussion about drug use in Germany: are we a doped-up society? Featuring a painkiller-addicted housewife, reformed crack addict, red-haired pro-cannabis advicate, the mother of a heroin addict and a medical expert this in-depth look at drugs in modern society also includes an extended interview with Christiane Vera Felscherinow ~ the Christiane F of the famous film and book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.


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How much citric?

Most of the heroin illicitly produced in the world today is the "number three" base form of the drug, which is usually brown in colour, but can be grey or white. This base form of heroin is high purity at point of manufacture (though nearly always adulterated by dealers) yet readily smokeable. (The heroin is put on a strip of tinfoil and gently heated from underneath, which causes it to melt into a little puddle. The foil is tilted and encouraged to run and the fumes are inhaled through a foil tube stuck in the mouth. This gives a better "bioavailability" than snorting (ie more of the drug taken actually reaches the brain), but to smoke anything more than a tiny dose this way takes tens of minutes as the heroin only vapourizes fairly slowly... Many long term users prefer to inject heroin as all the drug taken hits the brain in a matter of seconds, saving money and maximizing the high.
Injection-quality heroin hydrochloride is produced in small amounts in Afghanistan and, more famously in the Golden Triangle area centring on Burma, where the product is known as China white, because production and distribution has long been controlled by ethic Chinese gangs from Thailand, Vietnam and surrounding countries. But "number four" heroin as it's known in the trade, is more expensive than the more common "number three", and is considered by dealers to be a less versatile product, because it cannot readily be smoked. Injecting addicts, however, usually prefer number four heroin because it dissolves easily into plain tap water without the need to add citric acid or vitamin C, which can sting and cause damage to veins.
This video uses actual heroin of about 75% purity to demonstrate the "cooking up" process and shows how much citric acid should be added and what the resulting heroin solution should look like...
Too much citric damages veins!

Heroin Wars

Heroin trade... from Burmese opium fields to the streets of London

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OR "BANGCOCK" ~ AS I TEND TO SPELL IT

I HAVE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES of being in this situation, though I have never trafficked (or wanted to traffic) drugs of any kind. But I AM addicted to heroin... so I kind of have an empathy for this type of thing...

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Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

Watch this film about drug addiction from the UK: 5 parts ~
Thanks to Noah from the USA who flagged this up on his
Junkie ~ heroinitis blog http://nodnodnodout.blogspot.com

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Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools.

Bahnhof Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross...

Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way.

For some reason every section except Part 1 is ENGLISH SUBTITLED ~ wahey!


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Some kindly German has posted up all 13 parts of the movie ...

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Überblick of the film, with music: Mad World





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Deutscher Fernsehbericht ueber der echter Christiane F
German TV report on the life of Christiane F

The Price of Heroin

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Carlos and Dadinha

First 10 mins of documentary on a couple dragged down by heroin addiction in Mozambique, East Africa and their progress in kicking the habit... You don't need to see the rest on DVD as they suggest, you'll get the gist of the story from this...