Russia: Opium, the new religion

[Gordon Fitch]

Alec Ramsdell:
>                       ...  Does the first line of the
> article,
> 
> >The economic and social crisis ensuing from the
> >collapse of the Soviet 
> >Union
> >has pushed many to seek solace in drugs, 
> 
> suggest that pop addiction attribution is turning away
> from the bio-psycho disease model, and its
> accompanying personal responsibility ideology, to the
> role of socio-economic and systemic crises?

It's from India where they're allowed to say such things in
the newspapers and and the same time tweak Karl "religion-
is-the-opiate-of-the-people" Marx in the title.

If it were the American media, they would have to assign a
hankering for the delights of opium, like Nadia Comaneci's
getting flabby, to the Aftereffects of Brutal Communist 
Dictatorship.  And they would probably be too unfamiliar
with the scriptures to tweak.