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There are many ways of smoking heroin.

'some:

i

•Here are

(I). "Chasing the dragon" (Tsul Lung).' This entails building a contraption with an empty cigarette packet to hold a tinfoil tray in which the heroin and diafam, the substance with which heroin is mixed to make it combustible, are bumt. As the smoke spirals up the smoker "chases" the decomposing column (the dragon) with a glass tube, inhaling as he follows it. An expert told me: "These smokers are very clever. They seem to catch every trace of it." (i) "Firing the anti-aircraft gun". This is much simpler. A granule or two of heroin is placed on the burning tip of a cigarette. The cigarette is pointed upwards (hence the anti-aircraft, gun) to ensure that the heroin stays on the tip... and the smoker puffs away.

(lil) Breaking a cigarette in two, scoping out a cavity In the tobacco and putting in either, granulated or powder heroin and joining up the broken ends, or simply covering the cavity with a little tobacco.

(iv) It can also be smoked with a pipa---similar to an oplum pipe-by placing a small amount of heroin In the aperture (or bowl), and exposing it to a flame and inhaling.

(v) Intravenously with a hypodermic needle. I saw ..a few needle experts in hospital, Many had their arms lined with black knotted veins. As veins they no longer served their purpose. If they'd tried pumping them with carbon they couldn't have made a worse... mess. Compara- tively few use this method, but a prison doctor says "more and more are adopting this form of drug taking**.

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1987.

ROBIN HUTCHEON.

continuing, his series on Hongkong's deadly dopo trade, tells of the methods of taking dope in Hangkong and the methods employed by those whose job is to track them down

CHAPTER THREE

Chasing the

POLICE and Revenue officers spent a total of 100,000

hours last year tracking down' narcotics and its traffickers. That was purely preventive and suppression work-It did not include time spent in backroom prepara- tion work, court time, chemists analyses, report writing or any other of the 101 joba that go towards bringing a heroin or opium peddler to book.

The time was well spent, Polico claim that more than 90 per cent of those charged in recent years have been convicted.

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considerably

"Our conviction rate demon- mentioned atrates quite clearly how success- higher than bis present salary. ful we've been," à senior Police officer said. "In our action against heroki factories we have knocked out 13 in the last two years our records stand alongalde

other any

in the world.

►

"In fact, in suppression of faclories I think we are streets ahead of any other country.

"Knocking heroin factories out involves much more than just getting a tip and raiding a place. It means two or three months collecting information after the first tip and then the CID chaps have to make exhaustive in- quiries, and they only raid when they know they can catch them right in the middle of full pro- duction operations so that they can get all the evidence necessary to convict them."

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"The system we are trying to break down has been well organised for many years and is extremely efficient, And if we break down one arm of their organisation, by taking counter measures they will see that It is, not broken down

again," the officer-in-charge of Police anti- narcotics operations in the Colony

suid,

the Dragon

carriers employed pre females and the methods of con- cealment are varied and-in- genious.

Most of these small try were arrested by the man on the beat, We used to hear much about Police molleed the big switch opium "divens" dens where from eplum to heroin in late addicts gathered, retired to 1952, carly 1953. The heroin couches and puffed away at trait lod to the ill-it, untidy ebony pipes two feet long. The associated with maze of squatter huts in Kowloon paraphernalia where every kind of vice opium smoking including the lamp and the crucibles, to say nothing of the den itself; made it It is hard enough detecting a virtually a sitting target for on

Informed Police raid. heroin smoker at any time.

flourished.

am nesired a man can smoke re-

dodging arrest.

room.

those

sources

of

Laos,

often Bureau. It is headed by a residents and others who com crumbing. The morphing cakes Superintendent of Polleo with plain of the offensive amells that found today are well-finlaited two inspectors-and apart from heroin makers produce,

with cloon surfaces; in good-cori- secretarial stal that is all. Part An RAF officer, living in the dition and all carry Identifica- of the inspectors work is to deal top fint of an apartment block, tion marice embossed on the with what are called "natural was once the victim of Police surface such as AAA or (ironi-

the contacts",

from raid after several neighbours had cally) 888. All morphine cakes which the Bureau compiles its complained of the acidic-ether mrive in half-pound units, never dossiers on drug running to this, amell coming from his fat. When u catties or tacis.

of Heroin in a derivative Colony. It also gets information a Police raiding party entered

itself a from narcoticn agencies in practi- it they traced the smell to morphine. which is eally every part of the world and a flue. It lod downstairs.

derivative of opium. But while has particularly good relations

The Police raced down suspect it is known that heroin is made. with

in neighbouring ing by chance the ground floor. from morphine in this Colony countries.

The flat was surrounded and the there has been no evidence to To quote an official report, the ical heroin makers were caught show that heroin has been made From onium In the last two alto- bureau was established "for the Preparing their getaway. A heroin "divan" is

because it is a Despite the success of Palice yours.possibly collection and dissemination of fined herein in a cigarette stand gether different. There are no

action against opium, big seizures more casily detectable process. iny two fect

informaticri relating to narcotics, away A heroin factory, incidentally,

from or need not be any-reclining to develop the exchange are still being made. In the first But this is a point thât has al- without you

Kiving hlm-

couches and there need be no intelligence and to co-ordinate, bs were seized. Oplum comes virtue of its bulk, is a greater three months of this year, 488 ways puzzled me if oplum, by generally

make-shift

self away. But In Iaboratory

the "paraphernalia", A diven may measures to Toom or two pelting rooms of a flat, sometimes It is a

of a squatter area the be a staircase; or

from a roof, or a marcolic tam press the illicit

number of poppy-growing shipping risk than morphine aud Police were

areas such as the Middle East, If Police and Revenue obleéra at an even greater room. In the legal sense it is a whole flat. Ils characteristic disadvantage. And peddlers and place where two or three gather

The size of the bureau as far: the Persian Gulf, Pakistan and are hitting the traffic hard, as I smell is other. This has led to

as staff is concerned -- is do- the Shan states and their believe they are, why does it the downfall of a few for ineviter quickly devised ways of together for a smoke,

liberately kept anall and its environs

DO the borders of continue to arrive in the Colony ably they occur in residentini

These figures ilustrate the

work is almost entirely back- Burma, China, Thailand and in such huge quantitica Last areas. They employ chemists, 1 The Polico report for 1051-55 difficulty of tracking down heroin

year more than 1,800 lbs of raw do not know whether they are states: "Heroin

and morphine haunts: in 1954-58,

Raiding and searching is done The last Department of Com and prepared optixa was seized "qualided" in any sense, but if traders resorted increasingly to convicted for running om by the CID and the Department meres and Industry report and on ships and planes calling here. they are not it is not because the distribution of small doses of divans, and caly 42 for heroin. of Commerco and Industry. frequent court cases show that

It is apparently destined for factory owners cannot afford it, about .03 grammes, by employ plained elsewhere on this page. the work and the value of made on ships which had pre-

The smoking of heroin is ex- Oddly, despite the serious nature most of these seizures have been Hongkong, but since this Colony I know of one top Government ing peddlers who operate in

is astride the main shipping and chemist who got a big offer quiet

But in virtually every aspect of the drug cargoes Involved comers and stairways

the viously called at Bangkok. The air routes it is possibly sent here (from a mysterious voice over protected by look-outs much the traffle the Police have a far Police have not yet encountered Fersian Gulf, Pakistan, Bay of for re-export to neighbouring the telephone) to work for a in the manner of the street more complicated task than they

arned resistance,

Bengal porls and European heroin maker. And the figure bookmaker ond gambler....the ever had with oplura,

It is impossible to assess the

In the Department of Com- ports have also played some part effect of Police and DCI merce and Industry there is a in the trafic.

the re- nucleus of 20 men working on Morphine has been seized in suppression work-only suits of detection can be known suppression of narcotics. They comparatively large quantities and these, as indicated above, can if necessary call on the staff on ships. from Bangkok Small are impressive. In 1954-55, more of the preventive service for amounts of granular heroin bave

ursistanco..

INCENT brex seized from thark 7,479 people were convicted

All raids by the Police and traveling on the Macao-Hong- on a total of 5,851 drug chargée.

the And this is how they work:

Revenue officers are the kong stearners. The Police are responsible for result of information - but Morphine chipments appear

load routine searches have yielded to

increase, "ground" searches, raids, etc-and Revenue some spectacular hauls. The in- and

examination of officers are responsible for informants vary: some are men who the

seized consignments ports and experts by planes and are after a reward, others men show

who have been double-crossed facturer are

manu ships.

also Improving At the centre of both Police on carrying fees, others talica the technique considerably. ard DCI operations is an tive and frightened prisoners, The first morphine seized in Intelligence entre. This has

others ship's crewmen "la on the Hongkong was badly compressed, been working since April, 1955 secret" but not on the transac- and is kno as the Narcotics tion, and, there

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But if this is not the reason and if opium is not turned into morphine in this Colony the only other explanation which s tankly a guess is that some

huge stocks where there are

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I thought that my

Uncle was a

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... But now I know the reason for his odd behaviour," says

RODERICK MANN

who gives a twinge-by-twinge account of what bis life has been since he slipped a disc...

fiend...

The worst was still to come, gorilla. I was massaged by Curved like a question mark, I women from Berlin with fingers had to fly to California, And like piston-rods. -- there it begun. Everyone knew just how to fix me up.

"Of course," said my doctor. "if all this doesn't work; we'll

;

Friends tugged at me, pum-. have to stretch you. The Tack melled me, bent me backwards treatment.” over their settees, tortured mo across their

convertibles,

One

"From a door?" I asked, re- even produced a Do-It-Yourself membering Uncle Peter, Disc Replacement Kitcontain=

"Of course not," mapped the ing a book of exercises, a strange doctor. "We have modern ap- rubber hammer, and a thick pliances." leather belt.

"What if that don't work?”

On top of all this came the I demanded. Television Torture.

Callous friends-knowing that

HEN I was at school in Scotland and we visited my Uncle Peter in Perth, I always wondered why he used to string ooo I was on my back in bed my Aunt Annie up from the drawingroom door by a hook and swing energetically on her legs.

He would always do it, I recall, immediately suppers with a after tea and in the end nobody took very much notice of it except me.

was

What he was actually doing, I have since learned, stretching her to take the pressure off a slipped disc in her spine, At the time, of course, this curious, practice convinced me that my benevolent unclo was, in fact, a flood. It also served to give me the longest-looking aunt in Perthshire.

tv

I couldn't move would switch on TV before they left. It would remain on until they came back hours later. (ixperienced disc= knowledge of American TV have since assured me that this indoubtedly tarded my progress by wocher.)

I did not, I condear, so near a doctor, in América. Bimply be- cause I would have had to sell everything I possossed mren to pay the commiltation fee.

Instead, I flew back to Lorison, where my own doctor examined

"A plaster cast for two months "And if that's a flop?" He gave me a hangman's smile, "You'll be all right," he said, "I haven't lost one yet. T

I had, I would point out, great faith in my doctor, But a grobe lem waarlang... My friends were plunging me in gloom. ...,

Desperate.....

Every one of them knew some wretched men who had beed Ant on his back for 15 years 'with just such an ailment as mine:

"It coudn't have boon a slipped disc." I'd challenge, desperately

They'd laugh hollowly, chak-

Having just spent almost seven precious lule afterwards, s0 weeks on my back with a sining you must make the most of this. allment to poor Aunt Annie, I I slipped mine in New York-10 now present Men's Guide to minutes before, a dinner-date me.. Stipping a Dise for the benefit with Ginger Rogers at the Stork "A slipped disc?" I queried. of thare thousands of unfor Club.

He lookes rather aroes, Doctors -ing on my grapes.

rightly... object tunates, who, the doctors samire A book slipped out of my patients diagnosing their ow me, will do the very same thing hand. I bent suddenly to re-alkrenta, A few maxments later they'd my 'On his book: Or bis

it. Then a dick.... he came down to my level on

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"Bent to pickup) his louys,"

handkerchief,

Today, meted weeks afion(tha)

this year.

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Kympathy at the time. You get

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año mopped, ne I hobálta

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