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  • Heroin use up dramatically; Low prices, high purity drive `epidemic'

    12/19/2002 7:44:47 AM PST · by MrLeRoy · 171 replies · 518+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | Dec 18, 2002 | Michael Lasalandra
    Low prices and increased purity have caused heroin use to skyrocket in Massachusetts, with a new study showing the drug is the No. 1 reason for admissions to treatment programs and hospital detox units as well as overdose deaths. "This is a drug epidemic permeating every corner of our commonwealth, and as a society, we need to aggressively fight to end the human suffering," said Dr. Howard Koh, commissioner of the Department of Public Health, which issued the report yesterday. "Heroin deaths are suffocating our society," he said. The DPH report showed heroin is the most common drug for which...
  • Big Drug War News (Congressman Dan Burton on the drug war)

    12/17/2002 9:39:06 AM PST · by Joe Bonforte · 508 replies · 1,365+ views
    The Agitator ^ | 17 December 2002 | Radley Balko
    In a little noticed hearing of the House Government Reform Commnittee last week, Indiana Congressman (my homeotwn's Congressman actually) and longtime drug warrior Dan Burton made some stunning comments. In a hearing entitled "America's Heroin Crisis, Colombian Heroin and How We Can Improve Plan Colombia," Burton stopped just a hair short of advocating the decriminalization of drugs. Watch the video here (cut forward to 1 hour, 18 minutes into the hearing). Here's the transcript: Dan Burton: I want to tell you something. I have been in probably a hundred or a hundred and fifty hearings like this at various times...