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Article: The silent killer stalking our streets once more; Heroin is thought to have caused three deaths in Wolverhampton over the past week. Sam Lyster reports on this most lethal of addictive drugs.(Comment)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2000
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