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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (3202)	5/17/2004 12:58:53 AM
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China experiments with heroin substitute Kunming, , May. 16 (UPI) -- A sixth province in China has started providing heroin addicts with a drug substitute in a growing campaign against drug abuse and AIDS. The substitute, adanon, is similar to opium and is provided to addicts at low cost -- about 50 cents a day, the Chinese news agency Xinhua said. The newest province to participate in the experiment is Guangdong Province in southern China. The five other provinces are Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Zhejiang provinces, and the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Government figures indicate 840,000 Chinese have been infected with HIV, and 80,000 of them are AIDS patients. Most of those infected with HIV or AIDS are young people who live in rural areas. washingtontimes.com