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Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony

Heroin is the most addictive drug on earth, and some people will do anything to kick the habit. Enter Ibogaine, a drug made out of the African iboga root, whose intense, hallucinogenic properties make it a type-A felony drug. But many swear it's the most effective way to kick heroin addiction—especially when combined with a voodoo-type ritual that involves face paint and chanting. Full story

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Deportee Purgatory

About 40 percent of Mexican immigrants deported from the US are sent back through Tijuana. Many of the deported border crossers have established a makeshift shantytown inside a dry, concrete riverbed where the Tijuana River once flowed—called 'El Bordo.' A camera crew from VICE M… Full story

A New Episode of Our TV Show Is Airing Tonight

Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic hourglass that we reset each week to count down the days until the next week's HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one of them getting pinned underneath or losing a limb is real high. It adds a g… Full story

Diazepam Is Killing Scotland's Drug-Using Poor

Thanks to the majority of late-20th-century American fiction, many of us have the mistaken belief that Valium is the preserve of the clinically bored, middle-aged housewife, when really the drug is killing Scotland's poorest men. Full story

I Sold My Used Panties for Heroin

I started using heroin when I was 16 years old. I had played with every other drug at my disposal, but noticed an affinity for opiates in tenth grade when a friend suffering from cancer gave me some morphine. Within one year, I was shooting up in the parking lot while other kids Full story

Afghanistan's Poppy Bumper Crop

The price farmers stand to gain per kilo of opium poppy far exceeds 2008 and 2009’s prices, meaning that farmers will most likely plant poppy again this coming season. Full story

I Hung Out in a Warlord's Arms Factory

I went to the north of Pakistan last year to make a film. Before I left, my friend Sami got in touch and said that he'd been to Pakistan before too, and needed to tell me about the time he visited a warlord's factory there. Full story

Nine Months Living with a Junkie

You watch a sad parent pack away his son’s clothes, digging through the wreckage. That’s when, maybe for the first time, I understand the depths of the disease my roommate and supposed friend has been living with. I could’ve done better. Full story

Someone Put Anthrax in My Heroin

As if their lives didn't suck enough already, what with all the HIV, hepatitis, and chronic constipation, it recently surfaced that smack fanatics in Europe should now be wary of anthrax too. Full story

How Big Pharma Created a Generation of Oxyconteens in the US

Now that Purdue Pharma, the creator of OxyContin, is set to begin testing the effects of OC on children—an effort to procure a six-month patent extension for their drug—I wanted to look back on Big Pharma hooking a generation of Americans on legal smack. Full story