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    CHIANG SAEN, Thailand, Wednesday December 04 (Reuters)

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    The document summarizes a new opium museum located in the Golden Triangle region of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. The museum aims to educate visitors about the history of opium use and abuse through interactive exhibits that start out pleasant but become increasingly sobering. It explores how opium was used medicinally but also caused immense human suffering and societal problems when abused. The museum hopes to discourage drug use through its powerful messages while also supporting alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers.

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    The document summarizes a new opium museum located in the Golden Triangle region of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. The museum aims to educate visitors about the history of opium use and abuse through interactive exhibits that start out pleasant but become increasingly sobering. It explores how opium was used medicinally but also caused immense human suffering and societal problems when abused. The museum hopes to discourage drug use through its powerful messages while also supporting alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers.

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    CHIANG SAEN, Thailand, Wednesday December 04 (Reuters)

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    The document summarizes a new opium museum located in the Golden Triangle region of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. The museum aims to educate visitors about the history of opium use and abuse through interactive exhibits that start out pleasant but become increasingly sobering. It explores how opium was used medicinally but also caused immense human suffering and societal problems when abused. The museum hopes to discourage drug use through its powerful messages while also supporting alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers.

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    CHIANG SAEN, Thailand, Wednesday December 04 (Reuters).


    1) First reactions to Thailand's giant new opium museum in the Golden
    Triangle are confused: pleasant surprise at cool air after the intense tropical
    heat, but then disorientation, shock, even fear. Visitors enter the 100-acre
    complex through a long, dark, mist-filled tunnel, which winds into the base
    of a hill past bas-reliefs of distorted human figures before emerging
    suddenly into bright sunlight in front of a field of poppies. "This is the
    mystery, the contradiction of opium," says Charles Mehl, head of research
    for the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, which has just completed the $10
    million museum. "Opium is one of the very best drugs we have for treating
    chronic pain and bringing relief from suffering. But it can also be one of the
    worst, destroying lives if it is used for recreation or exploited for commercial
    gain."
    2) Built into a hillside by the Mekong River on the northern tip of Thailand,
    the museum lies at the heart of the Golden Triangle. Chiang Saen town is
    about 470 miles north of Bangkok, overlooking the junction of the borders
    of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Golden
    Triangle is a largely lawless region that last year produced more opium and
    heroin than Afghanistan and more synthetic stimulant pills than all the rest
    of the laboratories in Southeast Asia put together, drugs agencies say.
    3) Western backpackers and busloads of other day-trippers pour daily into
    the picturesque Chiang Saen district, in Chiang Rai province, to buy
    souvenirs on the Mekong's banks. Some try illicit puffs on opium pipes in
    nearby villages. The museum, which will open officially early next year,
    aims to exploit this tourist business, luring the curious with the promise of
    entertainment and impressive audio-visual displays in English and Thai.
    But as visitors progress down the labyrinthine corridors that stretch across
    three floors, the warnings against narcotic abuse gradually become more
    powerful. "People think at first they know what they will see -- a quaint
    presentation about hill tribes growing opium. But that's only a small part of
    the story," said Mehl.
    4) Mae Fah Luang has fought a 15-year battle against drug-taking and
    addiction in Chiang Rai province, establishing what the United Nations
    Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says is probably the best anti-drugs
    crop-substitution program in Asia. Lessons from that program, which has
    succeeded in the nearby Thai mountains of Doi Tung in part by offering
    farmers of opium poppies a better income from alternative crops such as
    coffee and macadamia nuts, are built into the museum. But it also offers a
    thorough lesson in the history of opium, its derivatives such as heroin and
    laudanum, and explains how the drugs trade has helped change the world
    for hundreds of years.
    Tragedy and Trauma
    5) Thought to have been used first along the coast of the Mediterranean,
    archaeologists say the earliest evidence of opium was found in Switzerland
    dating from the Neolithic period. It was a popular sedative in ancient Egypt
    and Greece before spreading to northern Europe and Asia and becoming a
    key commodity that was exchanged for Chinese tea and other spices by
    the British and Dutch. With 360-degree special effects, the museum traces
    the 19th century opium wars between Britain and China before looking at
    prohibition in the 20th century and official efforts, often spectacularly
    unsuccessful, to stop the use of illegal drugs.
    6) The museum asks visitors to themselves decide what could be the best
    approach to narcotics -- prohibition, drug eradication schemes,
    decriminalisation or legalisation -- but it pulls no punches on the tragedy
    and trauma inflicted by drugs on abusers. A final, heart-wrenching gallery
    recounts the powerful true stories of victims of drug abuse around the world
    through intimate video testimonies by their families.
    7) "The feelings which develop through a visit to the museum change
    toward the very end when there is evidence of the death and suffering that
    drug abuse produces," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the
    Vienna-based UNODC. "The end message is very strong, namely that use
    of drugs should be fought. Society has to use all its instruments, which
    means law enforcement for sure, but not only law enforcement. Prevention
    and treatment are equally important."
    1. The word "disorientation" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:
    total confusion; nothing being clear

    2. The word "distorted" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:


    unclear

    3. The word "poppies" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:


    flowers

    4. The word "contradiction" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:


    opposite of something else

    5. The word "exploited" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to:


    employed

    6. The word "synthetic" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to:


    artificial

    7. The word "illicit" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:


    unlawful; not allowed

    8. The word "curious" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:


    interested; eager to know;

    9. The word "narcotic" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:


    drug

    10. The word "addiction" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to:


    hooked; unable to stop

    11. The word "alternative" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to:


    different

    12. The word "prohibition" in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to:


    banning; stopping; making ille gal

    13. The word "eradication" in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to:


    removing completely; getting rid of
    14. The word "tragedy" in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to:
    Sadnees and pain

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