Reason Through the Haze

Having finally closed the Wired story that sent us out to Kenya last fall, we've moved on to another big project for the magazine. This time the focus will be on addiction, which means you should expect plenty of drug-policy posts in the coming months. We'll kick off the fiesta today by noting this paper out of Britain, in which the authors make a truly contrarian claim: that heroin use needn't always lead to abuse:

Our findings suggest that sustained heroin use does not inevitably lead to...