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...victims ranged in age from 15 to 35. They were found in abandoned buildings, in hallways, on rooftops and in basements throughout New York City. Some still had needles protruding from their arms. All were heroin users, and their deaths were causing unusual concern last week-even in a city where heroin abuse killed a total of 650 people last year and more people in the 15-to-35 age group than did murder or disease or any other single cause, including automobile accidents...
Especially disturbing was the soaring death rate. On an average weekend in New York, five heroin fatalities are reported, but during the last weekend in June the number rose to 24, an increase of almost...
...with Quinine. The upsurge could have been caused either by toxic adulterants or, on the contrary, by unusually pure and therefore more potent supplies of the drug. (Heroin pushers usually "cut" or dilute the drug with sugar and quinine.) No toxic agents have yet been discovered, however, suggesting that uncommonly pure "bags" of the drug, peddled by a pusher anxious to enlarge his clientele by offering quality merchandise, might be responsible...
...Heroin is usually injected directly into a vein or "mainlined," and it soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...
...into a tinted bardo, as on acid; not greasy expansion of the superego into a slimy wet bladder, as with booze. It is the smothering of the self, the extinguishing of all that you have been, of everything that you are, of anything you could hope to be. Heroin, my heroine, the White Lady of Blackness, the ghost of electricity, no more problems with you, Sweet Marie, no more problems, no, no, no more...