Article: Drugs for guns: how the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency

Article: Drugs for guns: how the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency
Belfast Telegraph;  April 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......well as a Taliban go-between who was visiting...of grade-A heroin across the...fighting. The Taliban go-between said fighters...good quality heroin, a similar...year. "The heroin is what lets...said the Taliban go-between.

Article: Tricked on to Heroin
Precinct Reporter;  March 13, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Precinct Reporter 03-13-1997 Tricked on to Heroin Americans are turning to heroin in alarming numbers all due to some very brilliant...of the drug cartels. What is this strategy? Get heroin on to the streets in concentrations strong enough...

Article: Record Woman; Why do nice girls fall for heroin?(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Heroin has long been regarded as the `dirty' drug, the poison...junkies use. But now experts are witnessing a turnaround in heroin's seedy image ... and they fear a more glamorous image...the crucial campaign. People in Scotland are now using heroin recreationally, said a spokeswoman for Edinburgh drugs...

Article: Heroin supply said to increase
The Boston Globe;  August 17, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Heroin is increasingly available on Boston streets because a bumper...There has been a marked increase in the availability of heroin," said Stephen Morreale, special agent with the federalDrug Enforcement Administration office in Boston. "The heroin availability has made us sit up and take notice." "There...

Article: BREAKING SEDUCTION OF DRUGS HEROIN NATION'S BEST-UNDERSTOOD NARCOTIC.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 24, 1989 ;     700+ words ......Siegfried Dallas Morning News Long before heroin was first marketed in 1898 as a cough...the addictive hazards of morphine and heroin's other opiate cousins were well known...as late as 1972 a book title warned of heroin, It's so good, don't even try it once...

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)
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Heroin is not a new drug. The dangers and destructiveness of the...contaminated batch, dying from the drug? The history of heroin is long and complicated. Some commentators suggest that...documentary on the life of Andy Warhol cannot fail to mention heroin. Although the artist was said never to have touched ...

Article: The Heroin Experience; The Drug Has Smacked Into More Than One Generation of Musicians
The Washington Post;  August 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ...What is it about heroin and musicians? Though songwriters almost...problem throughout American society, with heroin unquestionably on the rise: The National...estimates there are as many as 1 million heroin addicts in the United States, and another...

Article: Crack Sends Some Drug Users Backsliding Into Arms of Heroin
The Washington Post;  January 9, 1989 ;     700+ words ...The use of heroin, seemingly forgotten in the midst of the...people who died with lethal mixtures of heroin and cocaine in their bodies. In 1985...reported four deaths associated with the heroin and cocaine mix. Final figures for 1988...

Article: HEROIN // THE WHITE-COLLAR WORKPLACE WRESTLES WITH JUNK ON THE JOB
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 29, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Heroin is expanding from Chicago's back alleys and poor neighborhoods...Sold on the streets as "Candy, Nasty Boy and China White," heroin is being sought by growing numbers of white-collar Chicagoans...that don't fit the stereotype of the traditional user of heroin - the poor and the longtime users who ...

Article: Heroin: ONE DEATH A FORTNIGHT: Grim toll heroin takes on city is revealed.(News)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  December 5, 2002 ;     517 words ...Byline: JUSTINE HOLLINS HEROIN is to be made freely available on the...early to judge the extent of the city's heroin problem, he vowed to make the authorities...his findings? JUSTINE HOLLINS reports. HEROIN is claiming a life every fortnight in...

Article: Heroin UK: Dealers trick young users into addiction
The Independent - London;  May 11, 1999 ;     463 words ...HEROIN DEALERS are exploiting the ignorance of a new generation...of research suggests that for a new wave of young people heroin is "just another drug", no different to cannabis or amphetamines...Professor Howard Parker of Manchester University, an expert on heroin who is carrying out research on the drug ...

Article: For 2 pounds there will soon be a choice -four heroin doses or one pint of beer
The Scotsman;  April 15, 1998 ;     621 words ...HEROIN could soon be sold on the streets of Britain for the same...drugs "tsar" Keith Hellawell warned yesterday. Wraps of heroin - each with enough for up to four doses - are being sold...82 tonnes of drugs last year. Staff recovered 1,747kg of heroin with a street value of more than GBP 145 million - an ...

Article: Nightmare goes on after addiction ; Attempting to escape from the world of heroin abuse is never easy. But those who do break free from the drug addiction face an uphill struggle with their health.
South Wales Evening Post;  September 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Attempting to escape from the world of heroin abuse is never easy. But those who do break free from...Swansea-based drug user to find out the impact of using heroin. ADDICTION to heroin is one of the most difficult to crack. It is known to...

Article: KIDS AND HEROIN: FIRST OF FIVE PARTS--IT'S BACK, ITS USE IS UP, AND PARENTS SHOULD BE AWARE | USE IS ON THE RISE | GETTING HELP EARLY | THE HIGH COST OF HEROIN | WHAT TO LOOK FOR | EDUCATING PARENTS
Sun Publications (IL);  January 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ...TODAY: Heroin gains a foothold: What's happening and what...family doesn't want their son's death from heroin to be in vain Wednesday, Jan. 22: One young woman's return from the chasm of heroin addiction Friday, Jan. 24: In battling heroin...