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Heroin Use In Suburbs On The Rise
ABC News ^

Posted on 10/19/2010 5:44:23 PM PDT by TigerClaws

It's 7 a.m. and we're on an undercover surveillance operation with the Drug Enforcement Agency. **** The explosion of heroin in suburban America isn't by accident. Rather, it is the plan of drug lords from Mexico and Columbia, who strategically market the drug to middle America with new, sophisticated techniques.

Packets of heroin are now stamped with popular brand names like Chevrolet or Prada, or marketed using blockbuster movies aimed at young people, like the Twilight series.

"Those drug traffickers were marketing that Heroin directly towards teenagers," says John Gilbride of the DEA in New York.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: heroin
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Please send troops to the border!!!
1 posted on 10/19/2010 5:44:25 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

See, there are some businesses on the rise under Hussein.


2 posted on 10/19/2010 5:46:08 PM PDT by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: TigerClaws

I question the premise. My heroin use is down significantly.


3 posted on 10/19/2010 5:47:50 PM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: AndrewB

Mine is unchanged.


4 posted on 10/19/2010 5:49:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek; AndrewB

Mine is up sharply, so the auther is 33% right.


5 posted on 10/19/2010 5:50:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: TigerClaws
The administration and the drug cartels have the same intended target don't they, decimate the middleclass, the enemy. Not a coincidence!
6 posted on 10/19/2010 5:52:36 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (The tides coming in)
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See, there are some businesses on the rise under Hussein.

Precious.

He's a friend of white trash, I'll give him that.

7 posted on 10/19/2010 5:57:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (defeat islam.)
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To: TigerClaws

There are more important things to worry about folks....like the racism spouting out of Arizona against “immigrants”!/s


8 posted on 10/19/2010 5:59:21 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: AndrewB

Down “Unexpectedly”?


9 posted on 10/19/2010 6:03:57 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: TigerClaws

The offense of drug trafficking should be federal and carry a mandatory death sentence. There should be a single one-track court system set up just for them. Between arrest, conviction and completion of sentence with one mandatory appeal should be 2 weeks.


10 posted on 10/19/2010 6:07:04 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: TigerClaws

Heroin use is definitely a problem among teens and young adults on Whidbey Island, WA. Sometimes I think the police/sheriffs turn a blind eye to it.


11 posted on 10/19/2010 6:09:18 PM PDT by luckymom (Forget the baby whales, save the baby humans.)
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To: TigerClaws
Not sure why suburban heroin use is somehow worse than urban heroin use.

And anyone that would shoot junk into their veins because the package had a Prada logo is a moron.

12 posted on 10/19/2010 6:10:22 PM PDT by trumandogz
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Sorry, but most people do not need the Nanny/Police State to protect them from those who want to sell drugs.


13 posted on 10/19/2010 6:15:49 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

Mine has the Nike symbol.


14 posted on 10/19/2010 6:16:13 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: trumandogz

These aren’t hardened criminal adults. They are high school and middle school kids being given (free at first) 60% proof heroin (one use is enough to create an addict or overdose).


15 posted on 10/19/2010 6:17:19 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: luckymom

heroin is no joke. Your kid will do anything to get more. Including breaking and entering your friendly neighbors house while they are sleeping to steal.
I know this for sure, and when caught, that is a class of felony that will put them in a maximum security prison.
A normal kid will go crazy on this before your eyes


16 posted on 10/19/2010 6:19:59 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: trumandogz

Spoken in absolute ignorance of the true cost to our society from meth and herroine use. I suggest you go volunteer at your local jail for a while - or victim help center. Maybe spend a little time just across the border too.


17 posted on 10/19/2010 6:19:59 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: AndrewB

“I question the premise. My heroin use is down significantly.”

Me, too. I haven’t toked Lebanese Blond in decades. (For you virgin puppies out there, we’re not talking females.)


18 posted on 10/19/2010 6:21:03 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: trumandogz
if it's good, you can snort it or smoke it... you don't have to shoot it
19 posted on 10/19/2010 6:23:11 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: TigerClaws

I think we need to legalize all drugs and end the War on Drugs. Then the price will come down and more kids will get to try them and get hooked. Then the criminal suppliers will magically go out of business. /s


20 posted on 10/19/2010 6:51:30 PM PDT by hellbender
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