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...first night after the students moved in, their sponsor's cousin died of a heroin overdose. The second night, a security guard trying to break up a block party was stabbed outside of the apartments; he used the students' phone to call an ambulance...
Most of the addicts are, as in the past, young and poor slum dwellers. Increasingly, however, heroin is proving upwardly mobile and fashionable. Says John Randell, director of a heroin detoxification program in Los Angeles' Century City: "Cocaine dispelled all the phobias about playing with narcotics, so it became acceptable to experiment with heroin." Most of the experimenters snort the drug or heat it and inhale the vapor, in the mistaken belief that they will not run the same risk of addiction as they would if they injected heroin. According to experts, frequent consumption in any form may lead...
...Heroin from Sicily frequently takes only 48 hours to reach street-corner markets in New York. According to Morgenthau, the potent new drug has caused heroin-related deaths in the city to increase from 246 in 1978 to a projected 600 this year; arrests for heroin possession and trafficking are running 85% ahead of 1978. Moreover, said Morgenthau, "the free availability of heroin is increasing the number of addicts." New York is ill equipped to combat the problem. Because of budget cuts, the city has only 325 narcotics investigators, compared with about...
Because U.S. narcotics officials can do nothing to eradicate the poppy fields of the Golden Crescent, they have fallen back on what Bensinger calls the "second line of defense"-the refineries. Bensinger and his colleages have found European law-enforcement authorities eager to cooperate, for heroin is no longer the "American disease"; both Italy and West Germany have particularly serious problems. West Germany, which has about a fourth of the population of the U.S., had more than 600 heroin-related deaths last year, while the U.S. had 594. In the past eleven months, international law enforcement authorities have seized...
...drab villa in Trabia, a seaside resort 19 miles from Palermo, Sicilian police uncovered a virtual gold mine: the largest heroin laboratory yet found in Western Europe. Police estimated that the lab could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here...