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...These drugs could be used in a similar way to methadone for heroin addicts," Spealman said...
What seemed like ordinary bags of heroin hit the bazaars of the South Bronx early this month. Dubbed "Tango & Cash," the product sold for $10 a bag. By the end of last week, the drug had killed six people in New York, seven in New Jersey and two in Connecticut; 213 overdosed addicts wound up in emergency rooms. Preliminary tests indicate that the drug is fentanyl, a tranquilizer described as "150 to 6,000 times more potent than morphine...
Alice is a prostitute. She has worked the South Bronx for a year, servicing the men in the Porsches and Volkswagens that cruise the empty streets after dark. Scabs cover her arms from shooting heroin; her skin is pale, her body thin, her eyes puffy and tired looking, though she is only 18. Alice spends hundreds of dollars a day on her drug habit. "I shoot up as often as I can," she says, her legs twitching from the effect of the narcotic. "Practically everything I make I spend on drugs." She has no home and sleeps in other people...
...quiet corner below a harsh streetlight that illuminates closed-up warehouses and auto-body shops. The pavement glistens with water from fire hydrants, which addicts tap to clean their needles. One woman paces the sidewalk with her skirt pulled above her waist, and another crouches on the ground injecting heroin into her arm. Lines of cars circle the block. Girls, men and older couples flock toward...
...coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality "China White...