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Elephant in heroin rehab

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Published Date: 05 September 2008
AN elephant that became addicted to heroin will return home tomorrow after a three-year rehab programme.
Xiguang became addicted after he was captured by smugglers along the China-Burma border in March 2005. The traders fed him bananas laced with heroin as bait and to pacify him.When Xiguang was found two months later, he was suffering from withdrawal and was sent to a protection centre where he received daily methadone injections.





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Bemused and above it all,

05/09/2008 13:07:36
Is this what the Stone Roses were talking about when they wrote Elephant Stone?
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ktimmons,

05/09/2008 17:42:22
I think the people who did this should have to serve time in jail for this.

 

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