On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:06:31 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
> wrote:


>It's like curing Heroin addiction with Methadone.
>
>Methadone is supposed to be even _more_ addicting from what I've read...
>
The idea with Methadone was that the high were not near as high, and
it would block the highs of Heroin. It suppose to have less severe
withdrawal symptoms.

>This book is pure history and it was seriously well written and
>researched:

>This book even relates our own CIA's smuggling of Heroin into New York
>for "political reasons". :-(

Never happened. There was one agent who assisted in the one
importation, for his own profit, currenly residing in fed custody.