Despite decades of multibillion-dollar efforts to flatten poppy fields, apprehend smugglers and disband drug rings, the world’s favorite opiate just keeps coming over the borders, purer and cheaper than ever. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, heroin has gained nearly half a million users in the past 10 years. Luckily, even while California’s drug and alcohol treatment programs are due to lose $11.5 million this year, medical practitioners, both establishment and alternative, are deepening their understanding of addiction — and broadening drug users’ options for getting clean. In this issue, LA Weekly writers look at everything from an African root bark and other new therapies to the economy of rehab in a issue dedicated to kicking and keeping clean.
The Association for Women in Communications grants Martin Kuz of Cleveland Scene a Clarion Award for his story, "The Wal-Mart Menace" in the Newspaper Hard News Story category. Geri Dreiling of Riverfront Times also picks up a Clarion Award in the Newspaper Feature Story category for "Nasty Boys."
Gary Leonard, a veteran freelance photographer whose work has appeared in LA Weekly, LA Reader, New Times Los Angeles and LA CityBeat, kept his gubernatorial petition in his shirt pocket and whipped it out at enough shoots to get on the recall ballot, the Studio City Sun reports. Leonard is scheduled for the Tonight Show Sept. 22, and tells the Sun, "I even impressed my parents."
Sacramento is home to some of the world's strangest Star Trek tribute bands, as documentary filmmaker Roger Nygard has discovered. SN&R's Cosmo Garvin tagged along when Nygard recently shot some film for the sequel to his successful documentary "Trekkies," and found bands like No Kill I, Warp 11, and Stovokor were entertaining fans with all sorts of variations on the Star Trek mystique.
James E. Dible becomes the first non- member of the Mead family to head the Erie, Pa., publishing company that owns majority stakes in AAN-members Cleveland Free Times and the Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO), as well as the daily Erie Times-News, Editor & Publisher reports. Dible, 60, helped start Cyberlink, an Internet company, and the paper's GoErie.com Web site. He replaces Michael Mead, 65, who is retiring.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt is selling himself as the next EPA chief on the strength of his reputation as a consensus builder. It's an easy pose, as long as you hand-pick your negotiating partners. Environmental groups in Utah and around the nation view the boyish 52-year-old with justified suspicion. Is he the stealth industry shill who can sell the Bush anti-environment agenda? Salt Lake City Weekly's Jake Parkinson talks to Leavitt's friends and foes.
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