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Sep 08
2008
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Heroin and opium are both opiates, both addictive, both requiring treatment for recovery. Opium goes way back to the importation of Chinese workers for industry and the railroads. By exploiting those workers, American inherited an old Asian tradition -- opiate addiction. Many old Western towns as well as cities in the East had their opium dens into which cowboys or citydwellers alike would
