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'Breaking Bad' in China: how meth is spreading across rural heartland

• Christian Science Monitor

CHANGSHA, CHINA — Ah Chao first came across drugs as a teenager, when his cousin asked him to hold his tourniquet while he shot up heroin.

Now a stocky 32-year-old in jeans and a black nylon jacket, Ah Chao (not his real name) recalls between slurps from a bowl of noodles how frightened he was.

"Heroin did not appeal to me at all," he says. But the experience did not put him off other drugs.


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