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...East Side, the hostess sets two small trays before her guests. One contains the familiar white lines of cocaine, ready for snorting through rolled-up dollar bills or tiny straws. The other tray also holds lines of fluffy white powder, but they contain something new: a potent form of heroin that has begun flooding the illegal drug markets of New York and other Eastern cities...
...heroin is cheaper (about $50 to $70 for 20 grains) and stronger (up to 20% pure) than the brown Mexican heroin that it is rapidly replacing at street-corner markets. While cocaine, which comes primarily from South American coca leaves, gives the user an instant rush that lasts from three to six hours, the effects of heroin, a morphine derivative, are stronger and last for up to ten hours. Last week Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau warned a conference of the National Association of Citizens Crime Commissions that because the new heroin is so easily available, the East Coast...
...influx of white heroin is perverse testimony to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's success in persuading Turkey and Mexico to crack down on their illicit poppy growers. Succeed it has, and so the drug suppliers have turned to the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where government control is too weak to keep the poppy fields from blooming. U.S. narcotics officials estimate that the Golden Crescent is producing about 1,600 tons of opium a year, nine times the output of the rest of the world. Says DEA Chief Peter Bensinger: "It dwarfs anything we have known...
...drug pipeline from the Golden Crescent has few leaks. Raw opium is converted in makeshift laboratories near the fields into a more compact morphine base that is smuggled aboard freighters in Syria or Lebanon for shipment to Mediterranean ports, mainly in Sicily. There it is converted into heroin in secret laboratories controlled by Mafia dons with close family and business ties to their counterparts in the U.S. Almost all of Sicily's heroin-as much as three tons a year-is infiltrated into the U.S. by couriers on ostensibly legitimate flights, usually from Palermo to New York...
...thrills, not money. "One day me and this guy...got us a couple of guns and we walked into a bank and we held it up... We couldn't believe how easy it was. And how good it made you feel. It's like they say about heroin. It's never as good as the first time, but you keep shooting to see if it will be. It's the same with bank robbery. The first time you walk in there, you are the judge and the jury. You are the boss. No one can tell you anything...