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Article: The new opium wars: the administration plans to attack the lords of heroin.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- October 10, 1994
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At the ripe old age of 16, a girl we'll call Patty is now in recovery, trying to kick her drug habit in a residential program sponsored by New York City's Phoenix House. The daughter of a hard-drinking mother, Patty herself began drinking at 12, and soon she began using marijuana, cocaine, LSD, mescaline and psychedelic mushrooms. She had been scared of heroin, but a friend said sniffing it eased the crash from a cocaine high. It worked. Soon, Patty was snorting heroin two or three times a week. She graduated to the needle on a trip to Philadelphia, assured by a friend that the needles were new, so there was no danger of AIDS. "As soon as he put the needle in, I was like, ...
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