HEROIN
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
The Five Best Gravity Records Tracks
Nathan Aguilar of Cults and Census found the Gravity records scene as a teenage punk and talks about five Gravity songs that define the label, the San Diego scene, and his childhood.
The Strangely Uplifting Tale of the Cam-Girl with No Vagina
I was raised on the same diet of girl-on-girl coprophilia, animal torture, and 24-hour Arabic news channels that every child of generation WWW was, so the internet has to work pretty hard to shock me. But when a friend of mine linked me to this photo...
Bloodsuckers and Condé Nast-ys
Three years ago I was running around with sociopaths and addicts. Predators who took me to the projects to spend my money on crack and heroin and snap obscene Polaroids of me when I fell asleep.
Clint from "Swansea Love Story" Is Doing Fine
He's off the heroin and he wants to wife his girlfriend.
Chapo That Yeyo
A look at the brilliant smuggle tech of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the world's top drug kingpin.
The Black Tar Tits of Afghanistan
Suckling from a junkie tit can be lethal, which is pretty much the most hopeless image imaginable.