obituary here
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Harm Reduction News: the Vienna Declaration & US Federal Funding
The Vienna Declaration
•The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. A full policy reorientation is needed.•
Sensible Rules, Soon
....State and local health officials are eager for the new rules so they can move forward and are pressing the Obama administration to avoid placing unnecessary restrictions on already proven programs. They are especially worried about how the new rules will interpret a provision of the statute that gives local police departments some say in where needle-exchange programs can be located. It is important to protect the interests of local residents and businesses, but forcing exchange sites to the far edges of a city or town would utterly defeat their purpose. ....
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
it's not the tar; it's the fentanyl, stupid. (or, another AP asshat)
The AP misses the boat, again.
What they describe is, in fact, impossible. They are describing the effects of fentanyl, not heroin. Trust me, addicts would be a lot more excited about black tar heroin if the purity was ever 90%.Heroin does not magically disappear in post-mortem toxicology tests. Fentanyl, on the other hand, requires a specific and often excluded test.
Try again, fools.
AP IMPACT
Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US
WINFIELD, Mo. — Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins. ....
What they describe is, in fact, impossible. They are describing the effects of fentanyl, not heroin. Trust me, addicts would be a lot more excited about black tar heroin if the purity was ever 90%.Heroin does not magically disappear in post-mortem toxicology tests. Fentanyl, on the other hand, requires a specific and often excluded test.
Try again, fools.
AP IMPACT
Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US
WINFIELD, Mo. — Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins. ....
Thursday, May 27, 2010
so all of the delicious beer I have tried recently, not just a coincidence?
Heads Up
Tastings With Craft Beers
By Eric Smillie
YOU could be forgiven a bit of indecision when ordering a drink at Beer Revolution in Oakland, Calif. While its coolers glisten with bottles of the world’s choice beers, the bar offers a list of exquisite and rare brews that changes daily — it could take an enthusiast months (or a visit to a potentially far-flung brewery) to catch some of them again.
Painted a deep red appropriate to its name, Beer Revolution (464 Third Street; 510-452-2337; beer-revolution.com), which opened earlier this year, is the latest in a growing number of tasting bars in northern California and Oregon that combine a hyperactive tap list with an exhaustive selection of bottled craft beers that patrons can sample in-house or take away. “There’s a huge craft brewing movement — every month there’s a new small craft brewery opening,” said Rebecca Boyles, a co-owner of the shop with her husband, Mark Martone, who is known as Fraggle. “There’s literally a beer revolution going on,” Mr. Martone said ...
Tastings With Craft Beers
By Eric Smillie
YOU could be forgiven a bit of indecision when ordering a drink at Beer Revolution in Oakland, Calif. While its coolers glisten with bottles of the world’s choice beers, the bar offers a list of exquisite and rare brews that changes daily — it could take an enthusiast months (or a visit to a potentially far-flung brewery) to catch some of them again.
Painted a deep red appropriate to its name, Beer Revolution (464 Third Street; 510-452-2337; beer-revolution.com), which opened earlier this year, is the latest in a growing number of tasting bars in northern California and Oregon that combine a hyperactive tap list with an exhaustive selection of bottled craft beers that patrons can sample in-house or take away. “There’s a huge craft brewing movement — every month there’s a new small craft brewery opening,” said Rebecca Boyles, a co-owner of the shop with her husband, Mark Martone, who is known as Fraggle. “There’s literally a beer revolution going on,” Mr. Martone said ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
junky's christmas (or, more scary heroin art I cannot believe I only just discovered)
yup, a claymation film about heroin. A William Burroughs story in claymation, narrated by William Burroughs and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. (IMDB)
How had I not seen this?
How had I not seen this?
Friday, April 23, 2010
where has this been my whole life? (or google image-search life, anyway.)
The Drug-Takers
"Karen, a drug addict w. nylon stocking around her arm to make vein pop out as she uses hypodermic needle on an eyedropper which addicts call a "spike" to shoot up w. heroin."
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: February 1965
Photographer: Bill Eppridge
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